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100 years of women’s right to vote

by | Aug 20, 2020 | Occasion

In just over two months, about 9.3 million Texas wom­en will have the option to vote in the presidential election. It’s a process that hundreds of thousands Texans take for granted, but for women, the process of merely making it to the polls was a hard-fought process.

Tuesday, Aug. 18 marked the centennial of women gain­ing the right to vote. On that day in 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby ratified the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

For the full story, see Aug. 20 issue or subscribe online.

By Morgan Howard[email protected]

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