Reviewed on 7/16/2016 Fabrizia A. The Hay-Adams was the perfect venue for our DC wedding. From the beginning, Erin (our hotel contact) was incredibly responsive to our emails and patient with us as we made decisions. The hotel staff was really top notch and so attentive to my family's needs throughout the... Read More weekend.
See also. 1  Ballot access. 2  Black suffrage. 3  Forty acres and a mule. 4  Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920, women's right to vote) 5  Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1971, uniform voting age of 18 or older) 6  Voting rights in the United States. 7  United States labor law.
The Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was passed in Congress in 1919 and ratified by the states a year later. Virginia, however, delayed its ratification until 1952. By then, women had been voting and, slowly, winning elected office in the state for more than 30 years.