Empower Yourself!

I love This week marks the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women in the United States the right to vote. Though the Amendment was passed by Congress a year earlier, in 1919, it had been ratified by only 35 states — one short of what was needed to be adopted as part of the Constitution. A vote was held in Tennessee, the 36th state needed for ratification, in 1920, and it passed by a single deciding vote from 24-year-old Harry Burn, who had been considered to be against ratification. But Burn instead voted for it, citing having received a letter from his mother urging him to support the amendment!