In 1919 Congress considered sending a Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution granting women the right to vote to the states for ratification. The California State Legislature encouraged Congress in this matter with the passage of Senate Joint Resolution 3 in 1919. According to this resolution, “sex discrimination in the granting of the franchise has no place in modern civilization.” Congress did pass the amendment, and California became the eighteenth state to approve it. The amendment’s ratification in 1920 fulfilled the hopes of many in the suffrage movement. However, Black women faced the same obstacles to the ballot box as did Black men in many parts of the country.