FILE - A view of the statue of women's rights pioneers, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, unveiled at Central Park on Women's Equality Day on Aug.
27, 2020, in New York, New York. (Photo by John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRoc While the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote nationally on Aug.
18, 1920, it wasn’t certified until Aug. 26, 1920, when U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed a proclamation at 8 a.m.
at his own house in Washington, D.C., according to the National Constitution Center. Decades later, on the heels of the 1970 nationwide Women’s Strike for Equality, Rep.