1920: 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote

(LoC) - Photograph published in The Suffragist, 7, no. 14 (Apr. 5, 1919): cover.
Lucy Gwynne Branham of Baltimore, Md., was a graduate of Washington College, Md., and held graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins Univ. and Columbia Univ. She was arrested picketing for suffrage in Washington, D.C. September 1917, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse and District Jail.
Branham was part of the "Prison Special" nationwide tour of NWP activists who spoke about their experiences being arrested for demonstrating for the right to vote. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.