City Heights Law Day Art Contest Kids 5 - 12.

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Citizenship and Immigration

Age Group:

Preschoolers, Elementary School Age, Middle School Age
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Art contest for Law Day 2020 “Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100."  

Children age 5-12 can participate and win prizes!

Download a coloring sheet or create your own artwork about the struggle for women’s right to vote.  Take a picture and post to Facebook/CityHeightsLaw or Instagram/CityHeightsLaw by October 17, 2020.

This contest is sponsored by the City Heights Friends of the Library and four prizes of $25.00 each will be awarded to four age categories. 

 

In the United States women were not allowed to vote until 1920.  Women couldn’t own property, and they had to give any money they made to their husbands. By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. These women were called suffragists.

The movement for women’s suffrage wasn’t always peaceful.  Throughout 1917, 218 women from 26 different states were arrested for picketing outside the White House in Washington, D.C. 

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by states guaranteeing the right for women to vote in the United States.

Explore!

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/womens-suffrage-movement/

https://amhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/suffrage/

 

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