Be A Junior Suffragist

Junior Suffragist Activity Book cover with Junior Suffragist badge in right bottom corner

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Junior Suffragist Activity Book

When you visit the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, ask a ranger for the Junior Suffragist Activity Book. Complete the puzzles and other activities while exploring the museum exhibits. When you have finished, a ranger will talk with you about what you learned, administer the Junior Suffragist pledge, and present you with your Junior Suffragist badge!

Virtual Junior Suffragist Scavenger Hunt

Can't visit the museum in person? You can still take the Junior Suffragist pledge and create your own Junior Suffragist badge. Visit the Virtual Junior Suffragist Scavenger Hunt page to learn more.

Suffrage Cat

Did you know that the cat was a symbol of the women’s suffrage movement?
In April of 1916, suffragists Nell Richardson and Alice Burke started a cross-country road trip. Setting out from New York, these two women stopped in cities and towns across America to talk about the importance of women’s suffrage. Along the way, the women adopted a cat that became their unofficial mascot.

You can color, decorate, and bedazzle your own Suffrage Cat. Take your new friend to visit a National Park or a National Historic Site. Get a picture of you and your new buddy.

 

National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag, representing another state's ratification of the 19th Amendment

National Photo Co., Washington, D.C. (Photographer), Records of the National Woman's Party, Library of Congress

Design Your Own 19th Amendment Ratification Star

After decades of people fighting for women’s right to vote, the United States House and Senate passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Even though Congress passed the Amendment in June 1919, it was not yet law. Constitutional amendments have to be approved, or ratified, by three quarters of the states. In 1920, there were 48 states. That meant that 36 states had to approve the 19th Amendment.

Each time a state voted to ratify the amendment, members of the National Woman’s Party sewed a star on their purple, white and gold Ratification Banner.

Design your own Ratification Star. How will it represent you? The sky's the limit!