Female Suffrage: Still Sexy at 90 Years Old

Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

August 18, 2010 • 12:45 pm PDT
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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote in this country, was ratified August 18, 1920. Jezebel

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