President, how long must women wait for liberty?”“They wanted to be the first thing the president saw every morning and the last thing he saw at night,” said Veronica Chambers, the lead editor on a Times project commemorating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. A century ago today, the United States ratified the 19th Amendment, enshrining a woman’s right to vote in the Constitution. For years after 1920, many women, including Native Americans and Chinese immigrants, were not able to vote. “Many historians talk about the suffrage movement continuing at least until 1965,” when the Voting Rights Act passed, Veronica said. “The timeline of how long women in the U.S. have had political power and independence is not as long as we tend to think it is.”

Source: New York Times August 18, 2020 10:30 UTC