In 1971, a joint resolution officially designated a day to honor women winning the vote
Decades after the 19th Amendment was ratified, a 1971 joint resolution by the U.S. Congress officially established Women's Equality Day to commemorate the long struggle for female suffrage and equal rights.
In 1971, Representative Bella Abzug successfully championed a resolution to designate August 26 as Women's Equality Day. This date was chosen to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote after a seventy-year struggle.
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