Description: |
Demonstrators carried pennants like this one throughout the United States while seeking the right to vote in the early 1900s. Women who wanted the right to vote were known as suffragists or suffragettes. Since the 1850s, men and women worked to change the United States Constitution to allow women to vote. After gradually gaining the right to vote in local and state elections, the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920. |
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Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/1938 |
Collection: |
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis |
Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; |
Copyright: |
Creative Commons (CC By-SA 3.0); |
Geography: |
United States of America |
Subjects: |
Suffrage Pennants Nineteen twenties Constitutional amendments Women--Suffrage Voting |
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