The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote Exhibit at the National Constitution Center

Learn about the triumphs and struggles that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in The 19th Amendment.

Highlighting some of the many women who transformed constitutional history—including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells—the exhibit allows visitors to better understand the long fight for women's suffrage. 

The 3,000-square-foot exhibit includes nearly 100 artifacts and takes visitors through the decades of organizing and agitation that led to the 19th Amendment. Key pieces include a rare printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the first formal women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, a ballot box used to collect women’s votes in the late 1800s, Pennsylvania’s ratification copy of the 19th Amendment, as well as various “Votes for Women” ephemera.