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Women's Equality Day 2009

Posted 8/24/2009   Updated 8/24/2009 Email story   Print story

    

8/24/2009 - Nine-year-old Kiersten Aaberg displays her winning poster as part of the 2009 Women's Equality Day drawing contest at the Hurlburt Youth Center. Aug. 26 is designated annually to observe the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. The passing of the amendment was a culmination of the civil rights movement by women. The movement officially began in 1848 at the first women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y. Today, Women's Equality Day not only commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, it also calls attention to women's continuing efforts toward full equality. (U.S. Air Force photo/A1C Matthew Loken)



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