NEW EXHIBIT OPENS WEDNESDAY!

The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote opens Wednesday, August 26!

Opening on the 100th anniversary of certification of the 19th Amendment, the exhibit traces the triumphs and struggles leading up to the ratification, and features some of the many women who transformed constitutional history including Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells.

The exhibit features a rare printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the first women’s convention at Seneca Falls, a ballot box used to collect women’s votes in the late 1800s, Pennsylvania’s ratification copy of the 19th Amendment, and “Votes for Women” ephemera from the era.

Admission to the National Constitution Center is FREE for all visitors through September 5, 2020, made possible in part thanks to support from PECO.
Available from anywhere, you can now explore our Online Interactives:

  • Drafting Table – As part of the Center’s Interactive Constitution, explore drafts of the 19th Amendment—and discover the events and documents that influenced its text.
  • The Awakening – State-By-State Interactive Map – View an animated timeline and map that showcases changes as states started to grant women the vote—decades before the passage of the 19th Amendment.
  • The Debates – Tune in to audio zones to hear quotes from the time period that capture the arguments for and against suffrage for women.
RESOLVED: Songs of Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
August 26 | 6:30 p.m. EDT
Free Online

In celebration of the exhibit opening, join us for the premiere performance of composer Patrice Michaels’ new work RESOLVED and a panel discussion about the women who fought for equal voting rights.

Join internationally-renowned mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges and pianist Laura Ward for an 18-minute song cycle about the 19th Amendment and the American women’s suffrage movement by composer/soprano/creator Patrice Michaels and produced by NBCUniversal. A panel discussion featuring historians, including Marcia Chatelain of Georgetown University, Nancy Gertner of Harvard Law School, and Gail Heriot of the University of San Diego School of Law, exploring some of the iconic women highlighted in the performance who fought for the 19th Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment will follow. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is presented in partnership with Vision 2020’s Women 100 and as part of the Center’s yearlong initiative, Women and the Constitution, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we are offering family-friendly resources and programs, including live tours of the new 19th Amendment exhibit, on Wednesday. August 26. Highlights include:

  • A special reading of the 19th Amendment by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (portrayed by historic interpreter Cynthia Eaton), a writer and poet who traveled giving speeches advocating for both abolition and women’s suffrage.
  • A Kids Town Hall program, Meet the Suffragists, featuring some of the women highlighted in the new exhibit, including abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott (portrayed by historic interpreter Michelle Pauls) and suffragist Dora Lewis (portrayed by historic interpreter Carol Spacht)
  • Toast to Tenacity, in which our partners at Vision 2020 host a hybrid virtual event of livestreaming and pre-recorded presentations, tributes, and performances to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment.
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The 19th Amendment exhibit and Women and the Constitution are made possible thanks to the generous support of:

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Mauree Jane and Mark W. Perry
John P. & Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation
The Snider Foundation
The McLean Contributionship
Glenmede
SteegeThomson Communications
Sarah and David Andrews
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