19th Amendment

The Suffragist

Saturday, June 21, 1919

Bryn Mawr College Library

On August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.  It granted all American women the right to vote.  The article read, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

New York Times.

This is the front page of the New York Times on August 26, 1920, which announced the passage of the 19th Amendment.  

These three women hold a banner with a quote from Susan B. Anthony, “No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her.”  Anthony said this in both 1872 and 1894. The women photographed are encouraging men to vote for the 19th Amendment.  The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing all women the right to vote, was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920.

Public domain. 

When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug. 19, 1920, Alice Paul, National chairman of the Woman's Party, unfurled the ratification banner

1920

Library of Congress

c. 1920

Library of Congress

From Niota, Tennessee, Harry Burn represented McMinn County in the Tennessee House of Representatives. His "yes' vote, encouraged by a letter from his mother, broke a tie and caused Tennessee to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment and it then became law.

c. 1919

Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Knoxville County Public Library

Men and women at voting poll, Oliver and Henry Streets, New York City(?) ca 1922.

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