blog writing #the impact of the nineteenth amendment

Balloting rights in the United States of America has always been borne of struggle. Women have not been voting for the past 100 years, and this has been a challenge to most women as they were declined a right to vote. This encouraged them 7 to battle out for their right to vote 100 years ago. A hundred years ago, women fought for a constitutional right and against segregationist and discriminatory Jim Crow laws in the south- echo as American women kept on working against voter suppression and complete access to the polls. On August 26, 1920, the U.S Secretary certified that the 19th amendment to the constitution had been ratified by the required state 36 states (Wolbrecht, C., & Corder, J. K. 2020). Women were given a chance to vote after the amendment of the constitution, and this impacted women positively to start vying for positions, as discussed in the essay.