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The New York Times, June 28, 1920 – A poll by the National Woman’s Party shows the legislators of Tennessee are likely to ratify suffrage. They want Governor Roberts of Tennessee to hold an early legislative session to ratify the Suffrage Amendment, so that women in other states can vote in the state primaries held in the summer. read clipping

The New York Times, June 28, 1920 – The voter registration deadlines in some states are about to pass, and women cannot register because the Suffrage Amendment has not yet been ratified. The National Woman’s Party is pushing for a plank in the Democratic platform to pressure Tennessee to ratify the Amendment. read clipping

The New York Times, June 29, 1920 – The governor of Tennessee decides the State Legislature will meet on August 9. The governor of North Carolina, where the Legislature is scheduled to meet in July, says he is not in favor of suffrage, but realizes it is probably inevitable. In Georgia, the first state to vote against the Suffrage Amendment, a bill to give women state suffrage is defeated. The governor of Vermont says the rumors that he will call his Legislature into session are untrue. read clipping

The New York Times, June 29, 1920 – Carrie Chapman Catt returns from the Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and says twenty-two other countries have been granted equal suffrage to women since the last suffrage congress in 1913. read clipping