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Hoover, McCardle Students Illustrate 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote

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Photo of a Hoover High student in front of her artwork at M Street Street Arts Complex
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Students from Hoover High School and McCardle Elementary School exhibited their interpretations of the women’s suffrage movement at ArtHop in downtown Fresno on Thursday night.
The movement waged a nearly 100-year fight win the right to vote for women in the United States. Finally, on Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring that they, like men, deserved the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Click on the video above to see the exhibit and hear from student Samantha Calderone at the M Street Arts Complex.

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