On August 18, 1920,
the day that Tennes-
see ratified the 19th
Amendment, clinching
its passage, suffragist
leader Alice Paul
unfurled the National
Woman’s Party ratifi-
cation flag from the
balcony of the organi-
zation’s headquarters in
Washington, D.C. Each
time a state ratified
the amendment, Paul
sewed a star on the
banner, until she had 36
and women had gained
the right to vote.
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Lucretia Mott - Educator, civil rights
activist Mary Church
Terrell 7. Suffragist
Therese A. Jenkins - Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg 9. Hawaiian
suffragist Wilhelmina
Kekelaokalaninui
Widemann Dowsett
10. Congresswoman
Sharice Davids
11. Congresswoman
Patsy Mink
12. Suffragist Carrie
Chapman Catt
13. Civil rights activist
Diane Nash
14. Journalist, civil rights
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15. Labor organizer
Ai-jen Poo 16. Virginia
delegate Danica Roem
17. Congresswoman
Susan W. Brooks
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Milagros Benet de
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Cady Stanton
21. Congresswoman
Jeannette Rankin
22. Youth activist Edna
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Sojourner Truth
25. Indian rights activist
Zitkala-Sa 26. Suffragist
Virginia Minor 27. Suf-
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Lee 28. Activist Mary
McLeod Bethune
29. Abolitionist, suffrag-
ist Frederick Douglass
30. Feminist Gloria
Steinem 31. Suffragist
Alice Paul 32. Suffragist
Susan B. Anthony
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