World Report: March 6, 2009 Vol. #14 Iss. #20
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Women's Right to Vote
March is Women's History Month. We celebrate great women.
One big moment in women's history happened on November 2, 1920. That day, 8 million women voted in a U.S. presidential election for the first time.
Women had worked hard for years to get the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led this effort.
In 1872, Anthony voted in Rochester, New York. She was arrested. "My rights are all ignored," she said at her trial. In 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That gave women the vote.
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