"From the earliest history of our country, woman has shown equal devotion with man to the cause of freedom and has stood firmly by his side in its defense," Anthony wrote in her Declaration of Rights ...

Charleston, W.Va. – On March 10, 1920, the West Virginia legislature ratified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution to guarantee women the right to vote. West Virginia was the 34th ...

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 ...

The bulletin moved just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, 1920, conveying the breaking news that the 19th Amendment had been ratified giving women the constitutional right to vote. The AP had been covering the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aug. 26 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1920, eight days after it was ratified, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect -- giving women the right to vote. In 1964, Democrats ...

On Aug. 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to ratify the 19th Amendment. Since Tennessee was the last state that could possibly ratify, this action enshrined the right to vote for ...

It was ratified by the states on August 18, 1920. Our Constitution was ratified in 1789. Women had no federal constitutional right to vote. A few states periodically gave women states’ voting rights, ...

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, ...

Women have officially been able to vote for more than a century, but these 20 states had already given women the right to ...

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 ...