Suffrage, the 19th Amendment, and Equal Rights

Information about Suffrage, the 19th Amendment, and Equal Rights

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Alpha Suffrage Club, Article V, ERA Coalition, Equal Rights Amendment, NACW, NAWSA, NWP, National Council of Negro Women, STOP ERA, Seneca New York, Silent Sentinels, Virginia, Voting Rights Act, constitutional amendment, equal legal rights, nineteenth amendment, one hundredth, right to vote, suffrage, twenty eighth amendment

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Across

2. first black women's suffrage club, founded by Ida B. Wells in Chicago (3 Words)

8. founded in 1896 to fight to attain civil rights and women's suffrage for black women

10. 38th state to ratify the ERA, making it eligible to become an amendment

12. a way to change or add to the Constitution (2 Words)

13. group of suffragists who picketed the White House daily for 18 months (2 Words)

14. August 18th, 2020 marks what anniversary of the 19th amendment (2 Words)

15. proposed amendment to guarantee equal legal rights regardless of gender (3 Words)

16. 1848 site of a women's rights conference (3 Words)

18. the part of the Constitution that gives the authority to amend the Constitution (2 Words)

19. more militant women's suffrage group, led by Alice Paul

20. addition the the Constitution that guaranteed women's right to vote (2 Words)

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1. founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in 1935 to pursue civil rights (5 Words)

3. campaign by groups who were against the equal rights amendment, led by Phyllis Schafly (2 Words)

4. movement surrounding women's right to vote

5. one of the groups putting the Equal Rights Amendment back on the radar in recent years (2 Words)

6. the 28th amendment, if adopted, would give women this (3 Words)

7. If ratified (approved) the ERA would become this (3 Words)

9. the 19th amendment gave women this (3 Words)

11. prohibited racial discrimination in voting, passed in 1965 (3 Words)

17. turn of the century moderate women's suffrage organization, led by Carrie Chapman Catt

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