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  1. Although it took many years for all women to attain the right to vote, these diverse champions -Alice Paul, Jovita Idar, Patsy Mink , Mary McLeod Bethune, Debra Lekanoff, , Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt & others – were leaders in the #suffrage movement.

    #womensequalityday #19thamendment #suffragist #vote #suffrage

  2. It's National Women's Equality Day.

    For the record, I'd like to have more than one day.

    (Yes, I know it celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment 104 years ago in 1929--a mere 144 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 136 years after we were recognized as a sovereign nation with the Treaty of Paris in 1784, 132 years after the US Constitution was ratified by enough states to become the law of the land.)
    #WomensEquality #WomensEqualityDay #history #herstory #equality