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About Women's Equality Day
Women's Equality Day Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was first celebrated in 1971, designated by Congress in 1973, and is proclaimed each year by the United States President.

About Press On, My Sisters
Press On, My Sisters is a reader’s theater play that tells the story of women’s struggle for equal rights in America, created, produced, and presented by the League of Women Voters of South Central Texas. Reader’s theater is a play where volunteers, not trained actors, tell a story by reading from a script with photos and other images projected in the background to help bring the story to life.

Press On, My Sisters tells this story from the perspective of ordinary and famous women whose lives and heroic efforts were part of women’s struggle for equality in America. It begins in 1848 with the fight for women’s right to vote, which resulted in the ratification of the 19^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. It continues from 1920 to today, charting the progress of the Equal Rights Amendment (the ERA) – first proposed in 1923 - which will guarantee women equal treatment in all areas under the law with another amendment to the U.S. Constitution.