From entertainers to lawmakers, fearless women and their allies shared powerful tributes to Women’s Equality Day on Sunday. It commemorates the 1920 adoption of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the constitutional right to vote. Many Twitter users applauded the efforts of women suffragettes, while noting that more progress needs to be made to ensure equality for all women, including women of color and women with disabilities. Jim Crow laws in the South prevented many African-Americans ― male and female ― from voting until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Women’s Equality Day “is both a celebration of the victory for women’s suffrage [and] a reminder that even after its ratification, women of color still had to fight for voting rights,” tweeted Sandra Fluke, a lawyer and high-profile women’s rights activist.

Source: Huffington Post August 26, 2018 19:07 UTC