Saturday, January 10, 2015

100 years ago, the House denied women's right to vote — for the last time

Imagine an American woman who had no right to vote. It may be hard to believe, but she existed just 100 years ago. And on Jan. 12, 1915, Congress overwhelmingly denied her the right to cast a ballot alongside her fellow man. On that day suffragists lined the galleries as a 10-hour debate in the House of Representatives unfolded, according to an account in The New York Times . Opponents stood ...

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