HOUSE PASSES AMENDMENT GIVING WOMEN RIGHT TO VOTE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, January 10, 1918, the House of Representatives voted 274 to 136 in favor of a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
Representative Jeannette Rankin* of Montana spoke in favor of the amendment. She said...
"How shall we answer their challenge? How shall we explain...the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted for war to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country?"
Although the Senate did not concur in supporting the amendment, it was reintroduced in the 66th Congress where it passed both houses and was ratified by the states in 1920.
*Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973) was born in Missoula, Montana. She earned a BS in Biology at the University of Montana & later became a social worker in San Francisco. JPR helped organize the New York Women's Suffrage Party & was a lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
SOURCE
"The House's 1918 Passage of a Constitutional Amendment Granting Women the Right to Vote, January 10, 1918", History, Art and Archives, www.history.house.gov/
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, January 10, 1918, the House of Representatives voted 274 to 136 in favor of a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
Representative Jeannette Rankin* of Montana spoke in favor of the amendment. She said...
"How shall we answer their challenge? How shall we explain...the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted for war to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country?"
Although the Senate did not concur in supporting the amendment, it was reintroduced in the 66th Congress where it passed both houses and was ratified by the states in 1920.
*Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973) was born in Missoula, Montana. She earned a BS in Biology at the University of Montana & later became a social worker in San Francisco. JPR helped organize the New York Women's Suffrage Party & was a lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
SOURCE
"The House's 1918 Passage of a Constitutional Amendment Granting Women the Right to Vote, January 10, 1918", History, Art and Archives, www.history.house.gov/
Women's Suffrage Statue
Market Square
Knoxville, Tennessee
Photo by John White (2008)
