Happy Women’s Equality Day. August 26 marks the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, the amendment to the United States Constitution that gave women the right to vote. This year is extra special, because 2020 marks 100 years since the ratification of that amendment. Women’s suffrage was a groundbreaking movement, one that took years to accomplish. From the 1848 Seneca Falls, N.Y. Women’s Rights Convention and its “Declaration of Sentiments,” to Congress finally voting on and passing the suffrage amendment in 1919, women and their allies wrote, spoke, protested, and were jailed for what they felt was the human right to vote. The fight was long and hard — experienced many setbacks and defeats — but leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, and Jeannette Rankin kept the movement alive. After the ratification by the states on August 18, the amendment was adopted on August 26, 1920. This day is now celebrated as National Women’s Equality Day.