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Charleston, W.Va. – On March 10, 1920, the West Virginia legislature ratified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution to guarantee women the right to vote. West Virginia was the 34th ...

The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified a century ago last month. However, before 1920, women had already won the right to vote in 15 states, including Idaho, Washington ...

Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and Utah all allowed women to vote before the turn of the 20th Century. Washington, California and Oregon were among the seven additional western states to enfranchise women ...

Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900-1904 and 1915-1920. She is the author of the “winning plan” that led to the ratification of the 19th ...

At its August meeting, the Fort Sullivan Chapter NSDAR celebrated the 100th anniversary of female citizens gaining the right to vote in all elections throughout the nation. When Tennessee became the ...

The centennial of women’s suffrage — celebrating the adoption of the 19th Amendment on Aug. 26, 1920, which finally, after a nearly 70-year fight, guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at ...

After years of protest marches, arrests and hunger strikes by women demanding the right to vote, in the end it came down to 24-year-old Harry Burn . . . and his mother. Burn was the youngest member of ...

August 26th 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. Every woman that chooses to vote can thank a republican. Last week, on August ...

Even a century after Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what that 39-word addition to the Constitution did ...

Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting the right to vote to women, on this day in history, June 4, 1919 — sending the text of the amendment to the states for ratification. The amendment read, ...