U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for August 18: Women's Right to Vote
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE
Profile America — Thursday, August 18th. An emotional and legal battle that lasted many decades ended on this date in 1920, changing the course of U.S. social and political history. The event was the certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment prohibits discrimination based on sex with regard to voting — in short, it extended to women the right to vote. Two days earlier, Tennessee had become the required 36th state to ratify the amendment, in spite of last minute efforts by some state lawmakers to overturn the legislature's action. American women exercised their new right for the first time in the 1920 presidential election. In the 2014 Congressional election, 43 percent of women voted, compared with just under 41 percent for men. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Amendment history/accessed 6/3/2016: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63
Voting statistics/All Races: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2014/tables.html
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
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