On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was signed into law. Women finally had achieved the long sought right to vote. That same year on November 2, more than 8 million women voted in the U.S. elections for the first time.

Carrie Chapman Catt devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights nationwide and around the world, and is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Her political strategies and organizational skills contributed to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920. 

This segment is from Iowa PBS’s documentary Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women which tells the compelling story of the Iowa suffragist and her role in the women’s suffrage movement.