This week marks 100 years since Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
Passed in the wake of a cataclysmic world war, it wasn’t ratified until 1920.
Many of the women who had lobbied for it (it was first introduced in Congress in 1878), including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were dead.
Faith played a key role in the fight for women’s suffrage. Religious convictions compelled many to campaign on behalf of women’s suffrage — and many to fight hard against it.
“Religion comes up quite a bit and in many different ways,” according to journalist Elaine Weiss, author of “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.