Women's Equality Day Poster [WED2011]

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.

Obviously, passage of the 19th Amendment didn't come easily.  The names of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have passed into legend on account of the struggles they faced in rallying public opinion to their cause, and both passed away before seeing their dream of women's suffrage become a reality.  And a number of states not only voted against the ratification of the Amendment back in 1919 and 1920, but many didn't come back around to vote in favor of it until many, many years after it had already become the law of the land (the final state to do so, incidentally, was Mississippi in 1984.  Note that Alaska and Hawaii, both having become states well after the Amendment was part of the Constitution, have never had to vote on the Amendment at all).