A statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony stood in the Capitol Building in 2004. Tuesday is Women's Equality Day. File Photo by Michael Kleinfeld/UPI Aug. 26 (UPI) ...

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 ...

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In Aug.1920, Tennessee newspapers declared “the political democracy of America” was “complete.” But Tennessee women are still fighting for change.

In 1920, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution meant that women across the country could no longer be denied the vote because of their sex.To mark its 100th anniversary, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In support of the club’s commitment to women’s empowerment, the Orioles today announced plans to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which prohibited the federal ...

Doug Wilson, a co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), to which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth belongs, participated in a CNN interview that aired last week in which he ...

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 ...