ABSTRACT
The Nineteenth Amendment prohibited states from denying women the right to vote on the basis of their sex, but it did not guarantee that all women could vote. In southern states, registrars prevented Black women from registering to vote just as they had disenfranchised Black men. Some immigrant women were ineligible to naturalize to citizenship due to their race. Women continued to fight for their right to vote in the civil rights movement, and for equality in the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Despite the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voter suppression remains a problem in the United States in the twenty-first century, and women continue to work for social justice and human rights for all.
