After a 72-year struggle, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote in 1920. Coupled with the Fifteenth Amendment, which extended voting rights to African American men, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment transformed the power and potency of the American electorate. This article invites the reader to reimagine the Nineteenth Amendment beyond women suffrage. Not only did the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment open the doors for some Black women to vote, but it was also a call to political activism. The amendment empowered African American leaders like Ida B. Wells-Barnett and, today, Stacey Abrams to hold the nation accountable on its promise to be a government by the people and for the people. Ida B. Wells-Barnett not only fought for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment but utilized its passing to plant the seed of political activism within the Black female community. A lesson that presents an engaging strategy for deepening students' historical knowledge of the long fight for voting rights in the United States and the significant roles played by Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Stacey Abrams is also included.