 The ratification of the 19th Amendment in August the 26th 1920 was one of the most important events in the history of the United States. It was the greatest single expansion of the electorate ever. It doubled the number of eligible voters. Sadly in the southern states, state laws blocked most African American women from being able to claim that new right. And still the 19th Amendment as well as the 15th Amendment provided the basis for their doing so when the Voting Rights Act was secured in 1965. A hundred years after women were enfranchised through the 19th Amendment, the women's vote is recognized as massive and highly influential in the outcomes of elections. And African American women vote at the highest rate of all. In 2020, politicians are keenly aware that women turn out to vote at higher rates than men. So in November 2020, let's not disappoint them.