Law Day is celebrated annually on May 1. This year’s 2020 theme is “Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100.” In this historical year, the United States is commemorating the centennial anniversary of the constitutional amendment that guaranteed the right of citizens to vote would not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. It was a right that American women fought for, and won, through their voice and action.
Notable Women of the Suffrage Movement
- Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett – National Park Service
- Biographies of Influential Suffragists – Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester
- The Woman Suffrage Movement – National Women’s History Museum
- Women Pioneers in American Memory: Suffrage – Library of Congress
Articles and Presentations
- Wilhelmine Dowsett: Hawaiʻi Suffrage Pioneer – King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center
- Law Day 2020: Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy – ABA Journal
- Social Movement Changing America: The Legacies of the 19th Amendment – ABA and Law Library of Congress Program
- US Suffrage Movement Timeline, 1869 to Present – Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester
Last updated: April 22, 2025