diff --git a/Doc/c-api/import.rst b/Doc/c-api/import.rst
index c4816f5..bed6089 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/import.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/import.rst
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
    tricks with this to provide a dynamically created collection of frozen modules.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: int PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, void (*initfunc)(void))
+.. cfunction:: int PyImport_AppendInittab(const char *name, void (*initfunc)(void))
 
    Add a single module to the existing table of built-in modules.  This is a
    convenience wrapper around :cfunc:`PyImport_ExtendInittab`, returning ``-1`` if
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6bf6dcd..036a061 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -692,6 +692,9 @@
 C-API
 -----
 
+- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
+  ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
+
 - Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
 
 - Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 98b8dce..b39cb18 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -3376,7 +3376,7 @@
 /* Shorthand to add a single entry given a name and a function */
 
 int
-PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, void (*initfunc)(void))
+PyImport_AppendInittab(const char *name, void (*initfunc)(void))
 {
 	struct _inittab newtab[2];