Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part special on the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. It’s not often that history happens in your lifetime.
But history was made recently. On July 11, Joe Biden picked Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate. Harris, of Jamaican and Indian descent, is the first Black woman and the first Asian-American woman to be the vice-presidential nominee on a major party ticket in the United States.
This may seem old-hat to you by now, but besides Harris, Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro are the only two other women to have been nominated for vice president by a major party in U.S history.