新香港六合彩资料 faculty featured in 鈥榃MTW鈥 report on the 100th anniversary of women鈥檚 suffrage
Maine Governor Janet Mills recently hosted a tea at the Blaine House to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women鈥檚 suffrage.
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor of history, and Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health and professor of English, co-founders of the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program, attended the ceremony and were featured in a report on .
鈥淚t鈥檚 important for the younger generation to remember the struggles that women went through, not just in the last 100 years, but 200 and 300 years,鈥 De Wolfe told WMTW.
The 19th amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, ending nearly a century of protest. Women were not allowed to vote until it was ratified more than a year later on August 18, 1920.