HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified granting women the right to vote. Tennessee became the 36th state to approve the 19th Amendment ...

The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, granting women the right to vote. First introduced in Congress in 1878, the 19th Amendment was not easily ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, gave women in the United States the right to vote. South Carolina’s state legislature had rejected the ...

A statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony stood in the Capitol Building in 2004. Tuesday is Women's Equality Day. File Photo by Michael Kleinfeld/UPI Aug. 26 (UPI) ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, died in camp during a campaign ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – In March 1920, West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment in a historic vote with the rest of the nation watching. And, the Amendment was approved in the Mountain State because ...

“Give Us Liberty and the Right to Vote: The Journey to the 19th Amendment” will be held Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 1:15 p.m. in the theater at Montco Cultural Center in the Science Center building on the ...

In 1973, the U.S. Congress designated Aug. 26 as “Women’s Equality Day,” a day selected to commemorate the date in 1920 when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the amendment granting women the ...

Introduction : From the nineteenth amendment to today : an appraisal of 100 years of women's political engagement / Holly J. McCammon and Lee Ann Banaszak -- Disappointed hopes? Female voters and the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A memorial in downtown Knoxville that honors the suffragists who campaigned for the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was decorated Friday.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Today is National Women’s Equality Day — marking the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Beth North, president of the League of Women ...

“Give Us Liberty and the Right to Vote: The Journey to the 19th Amendment” will be held Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 1:15 p.m. in the theater at Montco Cultural Center in the Science Center building on the ...