D.D. Johnston Elementary School

08/26/2026

Reminder for Our TK/K parents on student school hours
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08/26/2026

NATIONAL WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY

Every year on August 26, we commemorate this right with National Women's Equality Day. The United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women full and equal voting rights on this day in 1920.



Birth of a Movement

While in London at the World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840, several women were denied access to the convention floor planting the seeds for a women's rights movement. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton, along with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, set in motion plans for the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Held at Wesleyan Chapel on July 19-20, 1848, the conference drew 200 women on the first day. On the second day, the convention opened to men, and some did attend.

During the convention, leaders presented 12 resolutions. They enumerated in the rights that women should be equal to men socially, economically, legally and representatively. Of the resolutions, all but the 9th were approved unanimously. The right to vote created concern. Many women felt it would cause large numbers of their backers to withdraw their support. However, after much debate and the support of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the 9th resolution also passed.

The Right to Vote

Woman's suffrage began in earnest in the United States then. Another advocate, Susan B. Anthony, joined Stanton in 1869 to create the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Through nearly ten years of persistence and lobbying, the NWSA introduced an amendment in 1878. Despite years of debate and finally to the floor of Congress in 1886, only to be defeated.

Ultimately, it would take another 34 years before a new amendment made it to Congress. For several years, advocates continued passing the batons. New states entered the union. Their constitutions included rights for women that states before them never had - the right to vote. Civil disobedience ensued. Eventually, with women gaining equality, Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

08/26/2026

We would love to wish Damien B. 10 & Gabriel L. 6 a very Happy Birthday 🎂enjoy your day❤️

08/25/2026

We would love to wish Elijah A. 5 &
Rick R. 10 a very Happy Birthday 🎂 enjoy your day ❤️

08/24/2026

Send your child a “sweet” message ❤️

08/24/2026

Save the Date

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08/24/2026

See you tomorrow ❤️

08/24/2026

08/24/2026

Happy Monday ❤️

08/24/2026

We would love to wish Aria M. a Happy 7th Birthday 🎂 enjoy your day ❤️