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August 26th is Women's Equality Day and celebrates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. However, the Nineteenth Amendment did not grant all women the right to vote, as there were many barriers for Women of Color such as poll taxes, literary tests, voter ID requirements, language barriers, and race-based fear. It wasn't until forty-five years later when the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 that many Women of Color finally had the right to vote.

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