The Long Wait for the Vote

The women's suffrage movement finally announces victory.

Women were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when Tennessee officially ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although the matter had passed in both houses of Congress a year earlier, a proposed amendment to the Constitution requires that two-thirds of the states ratify the amendment before it becomes law.

On May 21, 1919, U.S.…