(MSN News) Broadening the view of Women’s Equality Day with Patricia Smith Griffin

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Aug. 26 marks the anniversary of the 19th Amendment being ratified; giving women the right to vote. However, the legislation was not inclusive to all women.

More than four decades would go by before Black women would also acquire suffrage.

Less than 100 years after women of color acquired the right to vote, and a few decades shy of 200 years since the suffragist movement began, we now have a historic first: a Black woman running for president on the Democratic ballot.

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