Today (August 26) is Women's Equality Day -- honors legislative reform of 19th Amendment

This August 26th celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, by making sure that all the women in your church and community are registered and empowered to make their voice heard!__________At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.” According to the National Women’s History Project, the date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York. Across the seventy-two years between that first major conference at Seneca Falls and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, thousands of people participated in marches through cities like New York and Washington DC, wrote editorials and pamphlets, gave speeches all over the nation, lobbied political organizations, and held demonstrations with the goal of achieving voting rights for women. Women also picketed the White House with questions like, “Mr. President, what are you going to do about woman’s suffrage?” “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty? This was the first time in history that a group of people picketed the White House. The observance of Women’s Equality Day 2014 not only commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality.