STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Nicolette Armijos, 20, of Tompkinsville, is elated her first vote in a presidential election was 100 years since women championed the right to vote.
On Aug. 26, 1920 the 19th amendment was ratified in the Unites States giving women the right to vote. Armijos said she was impressed how women in the early 20th century fought for this right after decades of protesting and rallying to have their voices heard.
“Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920,” says ourdocuments.gov.
Nicolette Armijos voted alongside her mother, Melissa Christensen in the 2020 election.(Courtesy of Nicolette Armijos)
FEELING LUCKY
Armijos, who got to vote alongside her mother in the first presidential election she was permitted to vote in, said she feels lucky she could mark this anniversary milestone by casting her vote.
“Voting on the one hundredth anniversary of women being able to vote was astonishing because everyone should have always had those rights," she said.
And a century later, Kamala Harris, a woman of color and of South Asian decent has been elected to the office of vice president, according to election results called by the Associated Press.
"It’s really great that we have the first female vice president, and that she is also Black and South Asian,” said the sophomore at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan who is pursuing a degree in photography.
“It shows that women can do anything that men can do,” added Armijos.
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