90 Years Since Women Got the Right to Vote

On August 18, 1920, after nearly 70 years of fighting for

the right to vote, the women's suffrage movement reached the final victory in its

long struggle.

The 19th Amendment, which prohibits any state as well as the

federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on sex, had

already been passed in Congress and had been ratified in 35 states. Tennessee was the final

state needed to add the amendment to the Constitution.

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During the first vote, the Tennessee House was tied, and it

wasn't until the third vote when the youngest member of the house changed his

mind after his mother wrote him a letter. Since then, women have become a

political force. In fact, according to Alice Germond in Politico.com, more

women vote than men.

Since then, women have fought for equality in the home and

the workplace. They have fought for choice in their lives and they have fought

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for the same freedom as men. Women's roles continue to change and evolve, which

has also forced men to change and evolve.

Whatever your political leaning, the fact that you have the freedom

to your own political leaning is a profound right that women fought and died


So let's take the day to appreciate it and remind our

daughters what they (and we) take for granted. Whether it's History.com or Scholastic.com,

use the Internet to educate the younger generations about women's history in

this country.

- Alexandra Gekas,

Associate Editor

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