On this day in 1920...

....American women finally won the right to vote!!

That's right, women did not have the right to vote as citizens of the United States until August 18, 1920.

For more facts and history you never learned in school about women's lives, visit my women's studies site and the section on the suffrage movement, here (I made these pages ten years ago, but they're still useful):

http://womensstudies.homestead.com/suffrage.html

or here:

http://womensstudies.homestead.com/herstory.html

You also may wish to check out old articles on the suffrage movement from the New York Times, on this site:
http://www.herstoryscrapbook.com