In the Centennial year of Women’s Suffrage, the patterns in this series are dedicated to women (and supportive men) who worked for this In the Centennial year of Women’s Suffrage, this series of patterns is dedicated to the women (and supportive men) in the Movement. The Nineteenth Amendment was passed on June 4, 1919 and then ratified on August 18, 1920. This pertained to white women only. It was not until the Voting Rights act of 1964 that all women were granted that right. Suffragettes owed a debt to Haudenosaunee women who served as models.
Harriet Tubman worked for on the Underground Railroad, Abolition, as a nurse in the Civil War, and for Women’s Suffrage.