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This Day in History: Aug. 18, 1920: 19th Amendment grants women the right to vote

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, gave women in the United States the right to vote. South Carolina’s state legislature had rejected the ...
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How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide

An 1880 Harper's Weekly illustration titled Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times Historica Graphica Collection / Heritage Images / Getty Images The first New Jersey State ...
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This Day in History: Women’s right to vote becomes law in one state

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 18, 1920. The 19th Amendment is ratified. Passed by Congress nearly a year prior, on June 4, 1919, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on this day, ...

‘Largest women’s history museum’ in the U.S. coming to Knoxville

The Suffrage Coalition is bringing a museum to Knoxville to share the story of how women in the United States gained the ...
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This Day in History: August 13, 1921, Georgia women get the right to vote

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 13, 1921, women got the explicit right to vote in Georgia. While the 19th Amendment was ratified nationally in 1920, not all states played by the rules. Georgia women ...
PBS

Not All Women Gained the Vote in 1920

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vote-not-all-women-gained-right-to-vote-in-1920/ Three African American women at a polling place, one looking at ...
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Pentagon says Hegseth supports women’s right to vote despite sharing video saying otherwise

“Of course, the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote,” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters on Thursday. Hegseth reposted video of a CNN segment with Douglas ...