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What Voting Rights Struggles Persist?
The 19th Amendment, despite its dramatic expansion of the electorate, did not protect every American woman's access to the polls. After 1920, millions of women, especially women of color and poor women, were still denied the vote for reasons other than sex.
This section examines ongoing struggles for the vote since the ratification of the 19th Amendment. In the past 100 years, millions more women (and men) secured their voting rights as laws changed and discriminatory practices designed to keep certain voters from the polls were eliminated. The promise of the 19th Amendment, however, is yet to be enjoyed by all American women as election laws continue to change and many women still face barriers to voting. |