When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on Aug. 18, 1920, that was enough: as the 36th state to approve the amendment, the Volunteer State made sure the U.S ...

Rankin, a progressive Republican who grew up on a ranch in rural Montana, became the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, four years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment and as the U ...

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, securing the right to vote for women, was ratified on August 18, 1920. It's considered one of the great landmarks in the fight for gender equality.

When Arizona voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, four female state lawmakers led the charge. That's because women in Arizona won the right to vote eight years before it was granted nationwide.

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees American women the right to vote, was ratified on August 18, 1920. After passing through Congress in June, 1919, Tennessee became the final ...

The last state to ratify the 19th amendment was Mississippi, which did so on March 22, 1984. 16. The amendment overruled the 1875 Minor vs. Happersett case, granting women the right to vote.

The race to ratify the 19th Amendment began on this day in history, June 4, 1919, after Congress passed the text of the amendment. The amendment granted the right to vote to women.

After the 19th amendment is ratified, Cahill says, Bonnin "spends the next several years going to white women and saying, 'Now you have the vote, please fight for my people.' She says, 'Don't ...

The bulletin moved just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, 1920, conveying the breaking news that the 19th Amendment had been ratified giving women the constitutional right to vote. The AP had been covering ...

It would be some kind of symmetry if, 100 years after American women got the vote through the 19th Amendment, they finally acquired constitutional equality through the Equal Rights Amendment. One ...

On Aug. 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, which enshrined in the U.S. Constitution the right of American women to vote. The House concurred with ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — In March 1920, West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment in a historic vote with the rest of the ...