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| | | | | | The New York Times, August 28, 1920 – New York Governor Alfred E. Smith congratulates Carrie Chapman Catt on her return from Tennessee and Washington, DC. Four hundred women parade up Seventh Avenue in New York City to celebrate the suffrage victory. read clipping The New York Times, August 28, 1920 – The governor of Connecticut agrees to call a special legislative session for September 14 to amend the state laws to allow women to vote. Alice Paul tells the workers from the National Woman’s Party in Tennessee that they can return home now. In a special election in St. Paul, Minnesota, women vote for the first time since the Nineteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution. read clipping The New York Times, August 29, 1920 – Alice Paul says the legislators in Connecticut could ratify the Suffrage Amendment when the Legislature meets in September. If a thirty-seventh state ratifies the Amendment, this would be insurance against legal action in one of the other thirty-six states. read clipping The New York Times, August 29, 1920 – Editorial – The editor of The Times remembers a nineteenth-century wit who suggested giving the vote to women over thirty, on the premise that no woman would admit to being over thirty. Now that women have the vote, the editor speculates on what the impact will be. read clipping | |
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