 The fact that women can now vote means that it was. The 19th Amendment became law in August 1920, over 70 years after women began to organize for it. When Ida B. Wells' descendant Michelle Duster saw suffs, she was taken by a song all of the suffragists sing. I want my mother to know I was here. I want my sisters to know I was here. I want my great-granddaughter to know I was here.