DemDaily: On This Day
August 19th 2016
On this day in history, the states ratified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution -- giving women the right to vote.
Although Congress passed the bill on June 4th, 1919, it was not officially ratified until fourteen months later when, on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to approve the amendment, providing the three-fourths majority needed for ratification.
First-term Tennessee State Rep Harry Burns, 22, who cast the deciding vote, switched to yes
The ratification was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's voting rights and the brave leadership of a few extraordinary women.

Alice Paul

1913 Women's Suffrage Parade
In 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns led a women's suffrage parade of 5,000. With national media, it brought the issue to the attention of the country. But by 1914, just 11 states had given women voting rights.
Paul and Burns then formed the Congressional Union, later the National Woman's Party, whose goal was to convince Congress to pass a women's voting bill. They tried (and failed) during the 1916 elections, and Congress finally voted to pass the bill in 1919.
On November 8, 2016 she will become the first woman President in history.
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