Tennessee suffragists changed history ‘without firing a shot’
Millions of women’s ability to vote freely in every election rested on the Tennessee legislature in 1920. By March 1920, 35 states had ratified the 19th Amendment, which extended the right to vote to American women, but one more was required to make it law. And there had been a lull in states …
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