"Women were arrested, sent to prison, women went on starvation, they were force fed, they were subjected to the worst possible physical, mental and emotional abuse, all because they believed that the fight had to continue for women to win the right to vote,” she said.
After the amendment was passed by Congress, it still needed to be ratified by the states, which didn't happen until the following August.
"It was a very tumultuous time, apropos of our time today,” she added.
As Lloyd pointed out, 100 years ago, people were recovering from a pandemic while also protesting and grappling with racism.
"The 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote, but there was still this climate that there was not full equity between white Americans and those of color,” she said.
And while 1920 was the year that some women became eligible to vote in the U.S. for the first time, others were not able to exercise that right until the 1960s.
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