Proposed on May 19, 1919 and passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified on August 18, 1920. Learn more about the suffrage movement by visiting the online exhibit at the National Women’s History Museum, Reforming their World: Women in the Progressive Era.
Learn more by visiting the online exhibit at the National Women’s History Museum.
No image better symbolizes the Roaring Twenties than the flapper, recognized by her bobbed hair, scarlet lips, and fringed skirt barely covering rouged knees. Equipped with a ready-to-party attitude, she smoked, drank, and necked with handsome young men driving roadsters. She created a language and style all her own and changed forever how women acted, thought, and dressed. If the…
At the Annual Conference, delegates voted that all members should take a training course, formalizing a commitment to member training that continues to this day.
Women in Canada and the U.S. saw their public roles expand during wartime, a trend which would continue.
The Junior League of St. Louis, an early mover in the fight for women’s suffrage, organized a memorable march outside the 1916 Democratic Convention.
The Junior League of Montreal quickly moved to support Canadian troops and U.S. Leagues raised money for war refugees. Later, League members would serve overseas with organizations such as the YMCA.
A signature project of the Junior League of Brooklyn resulted in the introduction of free lunches in New York City schools – a first-in-the-nation reform. The initiative would serve as a model for the passage of the National School Lunch Program in 1946.
