On This Day: 19th Amendment Ratified (1920)

American women won the federal right to vote, after seventy-two years of work.

The ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of a movement that began formally at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. The final vote in Tennessee came down to a single state legislator, 24-year-old Harry Burn, who changed his vote after receiving a note from his mother urging him to "