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| | | | |  | The New York Times, July 6, 1919 – NAWSA holds a ceremony to celebrate the ratification of the Suffrage Amendment by Texas. Texas ratified the Amendment at the end of June and was the ninth state to do so. In one month, one-fourth of the required thirty-six states have ratified the Amendment. Following Texas' ratification, Iowa and Missouri have also ratified it. One half of the population of the United States lives in the eleven states that have ratified the Suffrage Amendment to date. read clipping The New York Times, July 14, 1919 – New Jersey women, opposed to the Federal Suffrage Amendment, start a campaign for voter referendums on the Amendment in order to delay its ratification. read clipping The New York Times, July 15, 1919 – Editorial – The Times advocates in favor of voter referendums. read clipping The New York Times, July 17, 1919 – President Wilson urges Georgia to ratify the Suffrage Amendment, but it is likely that Georgia will to reject it. read clipping The New York Times, July 18, 1919 – The Alabama Senate, which is mostly Democratic, rejects the Amendment even though President Wilson, also a Democrat, asks them to ratify it. read clipping |  |
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