18 (UPI) --On this date in history ... In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority ...

Surrounded by mostly women, Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky signs his state's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, on January 6, 1920. It was a ...

Before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women were allowed to vote ... Women’s representation in office remained tiny, though; to date, just 56 women have served in the Senate and 358 in ...

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, ...

Although the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, it reflected a general acceptance of woman suffrage (and temperance support) already present in the ...

Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment on February 26, 1869. But some states resisted ratification. At one point, the ratification count stood at 17 Republican states approving the amendment and ...

Although many date the beginning of the movement to the ... when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, just 20 days after Congress passed it. “You have done today the biggest thing ...