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Above: Miss Alice Paul, in background holding rolled-up banner, was part of the suffragettes marching
from the Women’s Party Headquarters to the White House in the spring of 1917. The women were marching
to further their cause for voting rights. Below: The 32-cent postage stamp the U.S. Postal Service will re-
lease in Washignton Saturday Aug. 26, 1995 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment
which gave women the right to vote. The stamp is a collage of two women’s marches, A 1913 march for the
right to vote and a 1975 march for the Equal Rights Amendment. (AP Photo/US Postal Service)
Votes for Women
On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment
100 Years Ago - The 19th Amendment
T
he long struggle of the women’s suffrage movement, be-
ginning with the drafting of the 19th amendment to the
U.S. Constitution in 1878, culminated on Aug. 18, 1920
when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it.
The amendment prohibits the states and the federal govern-
ment from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United
States on the basis of sex
Susan B. Anthony, one of two famous original drafters of the
1878 amendment, has nothing on her lesser known female
counterpart who effectively ended the decades of struggle.
Phoebe Ensminger Burn, known to her family and friends as
Miss Febb, was the mother of the young Harry T. Burn of Niota,