00:00The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution grants women the right to vote in the
00:04'the whole of the Union.
00:06Before its adoption, women's suffrage was managed at the state level of the Union.
00:10While white women living in the Western part of the country can vote in all elections,
00:15Those located in the East and South often have only limited access to
00:19suffrage, or even any right at all.
00:21Proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918, the 19th Amendment came into effect on August 18, 1920.
00:28after its ratification by the State of Tennessee.
00:31However, its reach remains limited for minorities.
00:34for which discriminatory measures were only gradually lifted between 1929 and 1965.
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