The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, guaranteeing that ‘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.’ Courtesy/LAC
We Demand The Right To Vote: The Journey to the 19th Amendment, by Meneese Wall, is a 5-time award-winning book that offers a beautifully illustrated history of the three-generation long civil rights movement known as Women’s Suffrage. Courtesy/LAC
Author and Artist Meneese Wall
LIBRARY News:
Join Los Alamos County Public Libraries, author and artist Meneese Wall, and the Los Alamos League of Women Voters to celebrate the Centennial passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed U.S. women the right to vote.
This presentation will stream via Zoom at 6 p.m., Aug. 23. Register on the library event calendar.
We Demand The Right To Vote: The Journey to the 19th Amendment, by Meneese Wall, is a five-time award-winning book that offers a beautifully illustrated history of the three-generation long civil rights movement known as Women’s Suffrage.
We Demand the Right To Vote gives tribute to key individuals in the suffrage movement, and recounts their civil rights work through women’s conventions, arrests, trials, petitions, and battles lost and won. Wall discusses the Iroquois traditions of women’s enfranchisement as a model that inspired US suffragists and tells the story of leaders who moved thousands of women and men at the local, regional, and national level to work for and achieve suffrage.
The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, guaranteeing that “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”.
This event is put on in partnership with the Los Alamos League of Women Voters and coincides with their exhibit Women’s Votes, Voter’s Voices: Over 100 years of Challenges, which is showing Aug. 21 to Sept. 21 in the Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library.