Friday, May 02nd
Last update06:40:50 AM GMT
Human Rights In photos: 100 years of women fighting for equality
This year marks a century since American women were granted the right to vote under the 19th Amendment, which was ratified and formally adopted in August 1920. Since then, women have broken barriers, smashed glass ceilings and paved a path of equality for future generations to follow.
Here's a look at some moments, both big and small, that helped advance women's equality over the past 100 years.
President Donald Trump's administration exceeded the scope of an 18th-century wartime law in using it to deport some... |
Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the... | ||
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student who was detained for his activism,... |
|
