Rightfully Hers Part 1
Record of the Month! For the months of August through November we are featuring the first two of four pop-up exhibit panels from the National Archives exhibit Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote. The exhibit Rightfully Hers walks through the ratification of the 19 th Amendment, how women fought and won their right to vote and the legacy of the Women’s Movement. In addition to creating and distributing the exhibit panels displayed here, the National Archives created a digital exhibit with more resources and teaching tools available through the following link: ( https://museum.archives.gov/rightfully-hers ). When the Constitution became the framework of American’s government on June 21, 1788, it left voting eligibility requirements up to each state. As a result of state determined suffrage, there were wide inconsistencies on who could vote and what they could vote on. A total of 15 states had granted some form of suffrage for women by the beginning of 1920. However, millio