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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — In March 1920, West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment in a historic vote with the rest of the ...
Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...
Beardsley Ave. This month’s book is “Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment” by Eleanor Clift. Books are selected annually, consisting of both fiction and non-fiction, and focus on ...
But if all else fails, maybe Trent Lott could push through a quick repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment.
With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote Liza Mundy The humor magazine Puck—a pre-TV ...
Miller addressed the Pennsylvania General Assembly on June 24, 1919, when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, just 20 days after Congress passed it. “You have done today the biggest ...
University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Nov., 1921), pp. 30-35 (6 pages) ...
Her relentless campaigning won Woodrow Wilson's respect and support, and ultimately led to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote. Born in Wisconsin in 1859 ...
After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...
After decades of effort, beginning in the 1840’s, women achieved the right to vote through the 19th Amendment in 1920. Trying to accomplish an Equal Rights Amendment, so that the Constitution ...
One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative ...