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Constitution! Broadside, ca. October 23, 1855. (GLC 06409.01)






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Women's Suffrage Broadsides

On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee legislature became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, clearing the way for Congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.









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