A large, dramatic headline was sprawled across the front page of the Aug. 18, 1920, edition of the Evening Gazette of Cedar Rapids. 'TENNESSEE RATIFIES SUFFRAGE,” the historic headline shouted.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Step inside a living tribute to the women who fought for our right to vote: the 1920 Merch Co., now open in Union Station this August. This groundbreaking ...

Nashville, Tenn., AUGUST 18, 1920 – Tennessee today became the thirty sixth state to ratify the Susan B. Anthony federal suffrage amendment. The constitutional change thus will become effective in ...

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — This week marked 101 years after Tennessee granted women’s suffrage. According to historians with the Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA), Nashville was an epicenter ...

As the nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the United States, Perry County women are reflecting on what that means to them and what suffrage means going ...

FARGO-MOORHEAD — In the late summer of 1920, the Roaring '20s were hardly roaring in the small, prairie cities of Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota — combined population 27,681. But despite ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — It was a hundred years ago this week when American women finally won the right to vote. The suffragettes had marched and rallied for their cause. And on Aug. 28, 1920, the 19th ...

One of the Syracuse’s most prominent figures in the struggle for women’s suffrage was Harriet May Mills. Born in 1857, Mills was a gifted speaker and organizer and a tireless worker for the cause. In ...

Susan B. Anthony was a women’s suffrage leader who rose to prominence after being arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, N.Y., in 1872. Anthony, who was already active in the anti-slavery ...

The woman has a strong spine of metal, an armature that radiates strength and power and upstanding principles, a frame that is also practical because it is supported several layers of stylish white ...