American women struggle to achieve
suffrage was the combination
over 70 years and hard work dedication
organization failures and ultimate success
many women particularly those
living in western states
had already won the vote well before the
passage of the 19th amendment
the Wyoming territory was the first to grant full
citizenship
to women on December 10 1869
no enfranchisement victories were won from
1896
until 1910 when women in Washington
State
re won the vote that they had lost in a 1887
court decision the radical new womens
party where the NWP
founded in 1916 by activists Alice Paul and
Lucy Burns led to President Woodrow
Wilson's agreement
to push publicly for woman's suffrage the
19th amendment was added to the
constitution
on August 26 1920
do
