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With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote Liza Mundy The humor magazine Puck—a pre-TV ...
The SAVE Act would force eligible voters to submit documentary proof of citizenship materials, such as a birth certificate, ...
Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteed women the right to vote. Congress passed the Amendment in June 1919. It was then sent to the states for ratification, and 36 states ...
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, ...
Chapman Catt devised a plan to win the vote for women by way of constitutional amendment, rather than working for legislative change in each of the separate states. Twenty years later the 19th ...
Miller addressed the Pennsylvania General Assembly on June 24, 1919, when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, just 20 days after Congress passed it. “You have done today the biggest ...
University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Nov., 1921), pp. 30-35 (6 pages) ...
Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect on January 17. The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18. On November 2, KDKA in ...
Beardsley Ave. This month’s book is “Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment” by Eleanor Clift. Books are selected annually, consisting of both fiction and non-fiction, and focus on ...
The League of Women Voters of Arkansas resubmitted a proposed amendment to the state constitution to the Arkansas attorney general's office that would reform the state's ballot initiative process on ...