By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South The Citizenship Project NPT

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In August 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee legislators cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, thus giving women in the United States the right to vote. Narrated by Rosanne Cash, NPT’s original documentary BY ONE VOTE: WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE SOUTH chronicles events leading up to that turbulent, nail-biting showdown.

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1. Some women would give up the right to vote in order to elect Trump

Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore co-authored a study course, published in 2011 and recently obtained by ThinkProgress, that instructs students that women should not be permitted to run for elected office. If women do run for office, the course argues, people have a moral obligation not to vote for them.

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Some women would give up the right to vote in order to elect Trump

https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-20161012-htmlstory.html#trump-backers-tweet-repealthe19th-after-polls-show-hed-win-if-only-men-voted

Oct. 12, 2016, 12:15 p.m.

Trump backers tweet #repealthe19th after polls show he'd win if only men voted

As polls show that Donald Trump would overwhelmingly win if only men were allowed to vote, the GOP nominee's supporters have spawned a new Twitter hashtag: #repealthe19th.

That’s a reference to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

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2. One would have thought we had advanced just a bit, but apparently not.