About:Three hundred years after the arrival of the first European women to Jamestown, the State Normal and Industrial School for Women was founded in 1908 to provide a proper and formal education for young white women. With the Suffragette Movement gaining momentum across the nation, the fight for voting rights evolved into a movement for equality. Ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 was the turning point; however, Virginia did not ratify the amendment until 1952. Now, in 2019, women are working towards Virginia becoming the 38th state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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