SUPPORTERS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE WORK TO PRESERVE RATIFICATION
Nashville, Tennessee (JFK+50) On the day following ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment giving women the vote, supporters did not leave town. They wanted to be sure that ratification stood. A two-day window of opportunity to revoke ratification in the Tennessee House of Representatives existed.
David Dismore says that the suffragists "kept company with every house member," took them to lunch, on country drives, and to the movies. Fortunately, no threat to revocation materialized.
Meanwhile, Representative Harry Burn, whose surprising "aye" vote put the amendment through, was besieged with honors and praise by the suffragists and charges of bribery by anti-suffragists.
Mr. Burn made public the reason for his vote. He said...
"I desired that my party might say that it was a Republican from the mountains of East Tennessee who made national woman suffrage possible."
SOURCE
"August 19, 1920," by David Dismore, Turning Point, Suffragist Memorial, www.suffragistmemorial.org/
Alice Paul Toasts
Passage of 19th Amendment
September 3 1920
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