1920 was a big year for my grandma. In March she gave birth to her first child, my dad. In August, she won the basic democratic right to vote. Women in a few Western states already had limited voting rights, but on Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirmed the right of all American women to vote in all public elections. We think of it as ridiculous now, but women had to raise hell for 72 years in order to win the right to vote. American women