Celebrate Women's Equality Day with our Fun Quiz (Blog) 8/26/2015 Ninety-five years ago today, women finally won the right to vote with the certification of the 19th Amendment! It took just over a year after…
15 Years of Making Democracy Work (Blog) 8/24/2015 For all of 2015, we’ve been celebrating the 95th anniversary of the League of Women Voters. When Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League, she charged…
95 Years after the 19th Amendment – The Fight for Equality and Voting Rights Continue (Blog) 8/21/2015 EDITORIAL NOTE: This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Ninety-five years ago, after tireless work by generations of advocates, the…
95 Years Ago: A Final Step Towards the 19th Amendment and Women’s Right to Vote (Blog) 8/18/2015 In 1920, a single vote in the Tennessee legislature guaranteed that the 19th Amendment, securing women the right to vote would, at last, become law.…
8 Throwback Pictures of Empowering Voters – Then & Now! (Blog) 3/11/2015 This post is part of “Celebrating Women: Past, Present & Future,” the League’s series honoring Women’s History Month. This year, the League of…
Observing Elections and Protecting Voters in Wisconsin (Blog) 11/13/2014 Editorial Note: This guest blog post was written by Carolyn Castore, League of Women Voters of Wisconsin In a few short years, the League of Women…
Protecting Voters, Restoring Democracy (Blog) 7/28/2014 Editorial Note: This blog post was written by the League's summer interns, Lily Klein-Evans, Claudia Maisch and Hana Migliorato Earlier this month,…
This Women’s History Month, Remembering the Women That History Books Forget (Blog) 3/27/2014 This post is part of “Celebrating Women: Past, Present & Future,” the League’s series honoring Women’s History Month. In honor of Women’s…
Honoring Women Legislators (Blog) 3/13/2014 This post is part of “Celebrating Women: Past, Present & Future,” the League’s series honoring Women’s History Month. Yesterday, the League of…
Help Us Celebrate Women’s History Month (Blog) 2/27/2014 Ninety-two years ago today on February 27, 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously and momentously upheld the 19th Amendment to the U.S.…