Happy Anniversary Suffragettes! The 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative

The year 2020 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment, the wonderful and long overdue legislation that gave women the right to vote. We all should be finding ways to mark this milestone, and The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI) was founded to do just that. This initiative is a partnership of women’s organizations and female scholars from across the nation dedicated to celebrating the work of the suffragettes and one-hundred years of American women being able to use their vote to share their voice. The WVCI states that their mission is, “to serve as a central organizing and information-sharing entity for programs, projects, and activities that commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, educate the public on the legal and social advances resulting from the amendment, and stimulate dialogue to address the ongoing fight for women’s rights.”  The WVCI also find it important to foster a celebration of this amendment that acknowledges the struggles with its implication, as well as how it relates to the many gender inequities still present in society today. I encourage everyone to go to the WVCI website (linked below) to find ways to become involved in commemoration (along with us here at the insert name of newspaper/periodical here). The best way to honor the suffragettes’ seventy-two years of fervent struggle is to exercise our right to vote. It is incredibly important that all people, especially women, who are able to vote do so. In all of the decades past, women’s voices have been suppressed. It is imperative to begin this new decade by asserting our opinions and insiting of the validity of our viewpoints. We are the women who can make a better world for posterity, just as the suffragettes did for us.

- "Winnifred J."

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