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Gertrude Weil (far left) and fellow suffragists, circa 1920. Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina

Virtual Installation

100 Years of Suffrage

In 1920, the United States ratified the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote. Imagine what it was like to be a woman in that era by learning about their stories through photos and artifacts from the Weitzman's collection.
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After decades of political debate on the issue, American women gained suffrage, or the right to vote, after the US Senate passed the 19th Amendment – nicknamed the “Anthony Amendment” after prominent suffragist Susan B. Anthony. A century later, we salute women like Anthony who work tirelessly to give women an equal political voice in America and other nations.

Can you imagine what it might have been like for women before the 19th Amendment? Some women acknowledged the inequality and fought to change the status quo. Some didn’t consider it something that could be changed. And others still were surprisingly opposed to it. Explore these artifacts and the stories behind them for a glimpse of the complex issues facing American Jewish women as the considered women’s suffrage.

We wonder what Sadie Silver thought about women’s roles in her time.

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Sadie Silver, ca. 1900
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 1989.25.1
Gift of Sadye Rosen

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All images, unless otherwise indicated, are from the collection of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.

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Photograph from Robert David’s Bar Mitzvah photo album, 1962. Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 2006.1.2867. Peter H. Schweitzer Collection of Jewish Americana.

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