The Daily History Chronicle

On August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the 19th Amendment alone in his own home, with no suffrage leaders or reporters present, closing a 72-year fight for women's suffrage. The amendment gave millions of American women the vote, but poll taxes, literacy tests, and citizenship restrictions kept most Black, Native American, and Asian American women waiting decades longer. This episode traces the movement from the Seneca Falls Convention through Tennessee's one-vote ratification to the amendment's uneven, unfinished arrival.