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A few nice 19th amendment images I found:

Women’s Party Flag (Suffragist Movement)

Image by Tony the Misfit
"You see, as the 19th amendment made its way through the approval process, the ladies sewed a star on their flag each time another state ratified it.

They needed 36. Many states had defeated the amendment. It came down to the great State of Tennessee, a lady named Febb Ensminger Burn and her son Harry, a state legislator who opposed ratification.

On August 18, 1920 the legislature was deadlocked and so the measure would fail. Then in a moment of high drama, 24 year old Harry Burn suddenly changed his vote in a role call. That morning he had received a letter, still in his pocket, from his mother in which she urged him "Don’t forget to be a good boy" and to "vote for suffrage."

He did. Pandemonium resulted. Women were screaming, weeping. Burn was chased from the room and had to hide in the attic. The next day he took the floor and gave reasons for having changed his vote. Among other reasons he stated "I know that a mother’s advice is always safest for her boy to follow, and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification." Upon the news that the struggle was over, Alice Paul unfurled this now completed flag from the balcony at National Woman’s Party headquarters in Washington DC.

The organized struggle, begun 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, had ended in Nashville, TN. It had taken the combined efforts of millions of women. Their ultimate willingness to be arrested and abused had finally shocked the nation into supporting their cause. Those who had begun the struggle did not live to see the victory. Those who completed the struggle were not born when it had begun. Where would we be without people among us who are willing to change the world?

In the end, they won. President Wilson -who had opposed the 19th Amendmant – changed his position to support women’s suffrage. By the time it was achieved with the 19th amendment in 1920, 168 NWP members had served time.

source: flagguys.com/suffragette.html

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Image by rkupbens
Pen used to sign the 19th amendment (women’s right to vote) into law.

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Image by rkupbens
Pen used to sign the 19th amendment (women’s right to vote) into law.