The Nineteenth Amendment

"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.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

On August 18th of 1920, Women in the United States got the right to vote for the first time in history.  The Amendment was originally drafted by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  The Amendment reads, "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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."  This was the continuation of expanding the great American notion of "We The People".  Because of the Nineteenth Amendment, "We The People" now included Women. 

While it is well known that the Nineteenth Amendment gave Women the right to vote, it also did something else.  In the photograph above, the word women can be interchanged with Hispanics-Americans, Asian-Americans, Irish-Americans, any person of any ethnicity whom was a United States citizen had the right to vote!  The text of the Amendment says, "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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."  Notice how the text says nothing about race.