Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting the right to vote to women, on this day in history, June 4, 1919 — sending the text of the amendment to the states for ratification. The amendment read, ...

After decades of argument, Congress passed the 19th amendment, allowing women to vote, in June 1919. It needed to be ratified by 36 states to become law. Nebraska legislators voted unanimously on ...

Nan D. Hunter, Reconstructing Liberty, Equality, and Marriage: The Missing Nineteenth Amendment Argument, 108 Georgetown L.J. 73 (2020) The social movement that led to adoption of the Nineteenth ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., (WJHL) – In the summer of 1920, a young Tennessee state representative named Harry T. Burns cast his vote against the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, allowing women the ...