Women's Equality Day

Women's Equality Day 

Women's Equality Day-August 26 is the Anniversary of Women Winning the Vote! Are you ready to celebrate? Join the UofL Women’s Center in the celebration! Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the U.S. on August 26 in recognition of women winning the right to vote. Black women and women of color were NOT guaranteed the right to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The fight still continues for all.

Women’s Equality Day Virtual Scavenger Hunt  

Commemorate Women's Equality Day by going on a Virtual Scavenger Hunt with us! Submit your completed scavenger hunt by Tuesday, September 3rd. The first 10 who send in their completed form will win a prize. *Prizes are for UofL students, faculty & staff, but we encourage the community to participate too! 

Optional, but encouraged: Share your finds on social media and tag us so we can celebrate these women and acknowledge their fight for the right to vote! We will be sharing your photos on our Instagram. Tag @uoflwomencenter.

Scavenger Hunt Submission Form

1. In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed giving (White) Women the right to the vote. But not all women were granted this right. Check out the resources to learn more about the fight for voting rights in Kentucky and the U.S. Share 3 things you learned and found interesting. 

• Visit the page Not All Women Gained the Vote in 1920.
• Visit the page Right to Vote
• Visit the page The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement
• Visit the page Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights
• Visit the page Women’s Suffrage: The Untold Story Of Black Women In Its History: Suffrage In Kentucky
• Visit the page Representation with a Hyphen: Latinas in the Fight for Women's Suffrage
• Visit the page Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: How Chinese-American Women Helped Shape the Suffrage Movement
• Visit the page Kentucky and the 19th Amendment
• Visit the page Kentucky Women’s Suffrage Project
• Visit the page Kentucky Women Rising
• Watch Women's Equality Day: The Fight For Rights Then And Now | NBC News NOW (triggering content)
• Watch What You Need to Know About Women’s Suffrage | NowThis
• Watch Kentucky has strictest voting restrictions on people convicted of some felonies
• Watch SELMA! THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES: The Fight for Voting Rights, Kentucky's Fight for this Democracy (triggering content)
• Watch US Voting Rights Act Turns 50 (triggering content)
• Watch Native American Voting Rights Act Seeks To Thwart Suppression Efforts
• Watch Suffrage TV - Looking for Lilith's The KY Suffrage Project
• Watch Whose Vote Counts, Explained | Full Episode | Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio | Netflix
• Watch The Vote

Additional Resources 

Louisville & Kentucky

• In landmark year, the right to vote is 'in the urgent middle of all that is happening' (Courier Journal)

• What is a Vote Worth? Suffrage Then and Now Exhibit (Fraizer History Museum) 

Articles

• For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn’t end their fight to vote (National Geographic)

• The Voting Rights Act was signed 55 years ago. Black women led the movement behind it. (USA Today)

• The 19th Amendment: An Important Milestone in an Unfinished Journey (The New York Times)

• 100 years after women’s suffrage, work remains in achieving equality (PBS)

• 'It's a Struggle They Will Wage Alone.' How Black Women Earned the Right to Vote (Time)

• Similarities between suffrage movement a century ago and today's protests (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

• Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet. (The Washington Post)

• The forgotten history of women’s suffrage in the United States (Fortune)

• For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword (The New York Times)

• Thousands of women fought against the right to vote. Their reasons still resonate today. (The Washington Post)

• How Queer Women Powered the Suffrage Movement (The New York Times)

• The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement (Ms. Magazine)

• Meet the Brave but Overlooked Women of Color Who Fought for the Vote (The New York Times)

• ‘Where are the women?’: The centennial of the 19th Amendment and rewriting women’s history (USA Today)

• ‘Finish the Fight’: A Special Digital Theater Performance Celebrates 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote (The New York Times)

• What's she got in her pockets? Women's suffrage and pockets

Documentaries & Movies

• Iron Jawed Angels
• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
• Inez Milholland ~ Forward Into Light
• One Woman, One Vote
• The Vote