Women's History Month 2021

Since many of the women's suffrage centennial celebrations originally scheduled for 2020 were curtailed, the National Women's History Alliance is extending the annual theme for 2021 to "Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced".

-- 1st Women's History Day was in 1909 in New York City

-- 1st Women's History Week was in 1978 in Sonoma Co., CA

-- 1st National Women's History Month was in 1987

-- 1st US place to grant women the vote was the Wyoming Territory in 1869

-- 19th Amendment recognizing Women's right to vote was signed into law in 1920

-- In 1924 Native American women gained the right to vote after being granted American citizenship

-- The 1964 Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory laws such as literacy tests.

-- In 1923, Alice Paul first introduced the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment, which was called the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" at the time. It stated: "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." The amendment was introduced in Congress the same year. 

National Women's History Museum

History.com

Women'sHistoryMonth.gov

National Women's History Alliance

International Women's Day

21 Women's History Month Facts

Census.gov

Biography.com

Mastersdegree.net

National American Women Suffrage Association

Library of Congress National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection

Equal Rights Amendment

Brennan Center for Justice - ERA