The weekly publication of the National Woman’s Party, The Suffragist, celebrated the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in Congress with its cover of June 21, 1919. The allegorical figures of Justice and American Womanhood embrace, while the title below, “At Last,” alludes to the long awaited event. Justice clutches the suffrage amendment in one hand and balances scales in the other, as she is finally able to give American women what they rightfully deserve. However, white women felt the celebratory spirit more than women of color. After more than seventy-two years of agitating, women had finally won the right to vote, but “universal suffrage” was not, in fact, inclusive of all women.
Photomechanical reproduction, published in The Suffragist, June 21, 1919 Bryn Mawr College Library, Special Collections