Woman - She needs no eulogy, she speaks for herself reads the title on a comic post card, mailed in 1907 to A. S. Coyle, 418 Kansas City Life Building, Kansas, City, Mo., from Knoxville, Tenn. The sketch shows a statue of a long-skirted woman of the day, who is haranguing on the subject of women's suffrage while two men grovel at her feet. Many organizations and leaders worked to gain the right for women to vote, but it was the part taken by U.S. women in World War I that broke down the barriers of the opposition. The ratification of three-fourths of the state legislatures was finally secured and on Aug. 26, 1920, the official proclamation was issued stating that the 19th Amendment having been duly ratified by 36 state legislatures has become valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution of the United States. Kansas City Star, November 6, 1976.
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