90th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage

The Harris County Democratic Party proudly recognizes and celebrates the 90^th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. On August 26, 1920, it was granted to women in the United States as the 19^th Amendment was certified as part of the U.S. Constitution.

“What is forgotten now, 90 years later, is that a long and hard-fought struggle was necessary to gain the vote. Suffragists marched, chained themselves to the White House gates, went to prison, fasted and were force-fed to get the right to vote,” says Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics.

The Harris County Democratic Party celebrates women, both in politics and out. We salute women professionals, single moms, stay-at-home moms, civic and community leaders, and all women officeholders representing Texans from city hall to Austin to Washington D.C. On this historic anniversary, we also applaud all of the women in our most impressive slate of Democratic candidates for election this November.