As right-wing Christian nationalists supported by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are calling for an end to women’s right to vote, it seems crucial to remember the history of the drive for women’s suffrage in the United States of America. (from Heather Cox Richardson).
“On this day in 1920 the 19th Amendment was formally incorporated into the U.S. Constitution.
At first, it looked like the amendment was not going to make it. It needed the approval of one more state. And then, a 24-year-old legislator from Tennessee, Harry Burn, decided to vote for the amendment at the last minute because his mother wanted him to. And Tennessee became the 36th state to approve suffrage for women.
After more than 70 years of struggle by the suffrage movement, women finally had the right to vote.” (from Pearl McE.)