Roses and RadicalsBy: Susan Zimet, Todd Hasak Lowy The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U. S. Constitution the one granting suffrage to women was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for