Beyond Shingle Diggins

Published November 8, 1995

Are women competent to vote?

That was a much-discussed question in the days before the 19th Amendment was finally passed by both houses of Congress 75 years ago. And, if you were a woman, you still couldn’t have voted in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and some others, since it wasn’t ratified by all states before the elections of 1920.

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