Votes for Women

The Alabama Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), consisting of members of Selma and Birmingham suffrage organizations, joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association to lead the fight for white women's right to vote in Alabama. The state legislature would not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, but in 1920 suffrage was achieved and the AESA was dissolved.

Window of a vacant store decorated with women's suffrage flyers by the Birmingham Equal Suffrage Association
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Window of a vacant store decorated with women's suffrage flyers by the Birmingham Equal Suffrage Association