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At the Women's Equality Day celebration at the Union Square Park in New York City, Wednesday, women's rights' activist Alicia Boyd said, “We need to be exercising our voting power to get rid of some of these crooked politician, OK let me say that again, we need to be exercising our voting power to get rid of some these crooked politicians.”

Nearly a century ago, these women would not have been able to say those words. Women had no legal right to vote, then. But after decades of women activism, the 19th amendment which granted women the right to vote, was passed by the US congress in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Today, these women are celebrating the 95th anniversary of the women's legal right to vote.

Don Tagala reports.