Video: '18th August 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage'

(Wednesday, August 18, 1920) — The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified today by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land.

The Nineteenth Amendment’s adoption was certified eight days later on Aug. 26, 1920