Oregon, Arizona, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota had all granted voting rights to their female citizens (Microsoft 2000). The suffragists still did not consider this a full victory. They began to put the pressure on the federal government to create a national law that would make it a requirement for all women, regardless of color, to have the right to vote. In 1919, the women suffragists achieved the results they had wanted. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920. It held that, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex (Gurko 1974, 303).” Congress would also have the power to enforce this article by the appropriate legislation.Women’s suffrage was and is a much larger subject than most people realize. The fact that women would actually stand up for what they believed until they received what they wanted, was unbelievable to many, but it was also very inspiring. These women suffragists were the beginning of the entire women’s rights movement, which is still going on in some aspects, to this day. While many men still hold that women are inferior to men, women can be comfortable in the fact that there are others, like Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, that will stand up for the rights of all women, and will continue to do so until full equality of the sexes is achieved. ...
