ASB Announcements
- Women's History Month Facts of the Week - March 2021
Fact
1: Every Women's History Month has a theme. The 2020 theme was “Valiant
Women of the Vote,” according to the National Women's History Alliance.
The 2021 theme is “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.” They will focus on women's political involvement and leadership.
Fact
2: The 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was
signed into law on Aug. 26, 1920. But at the time, a number of other
laws prohibited Native American women, Black women, Asian American
women, and Latinx women from voting, among others. It wasn't until 1965,
when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law,
that discriminatory tactics such as literacy tests were outlawed, and
all women could vote.