“On this Women’s Equality Day, we take time to recognize not only the historic 19^th Amendment, but the tremendous progress we’ve made over the last 89 years in expanding and protecting voting rights,” said national League president Mary G. Wilson. “Generation after generation, the work of League of Women Voter members across the country is a testament to the incredible legacy of the 19^th Amendment.”

In June 1919, the federal women’s suffrage amendment was submitted to the states for ratification and by April 1920, 35 of the necessary 36 states had ratified. When the North Carolina legislature met on 10 August 1920, both North Carolina and Tennessee were considering the suffrage amendment and its ratification. It appeared not only that the Nineteenth Amendment would be ratified, but that North Carolina could be the final state required to do so. On 17 August 1920, state senator Lindsay Warren proposed that the Senate postpone the ratification vote until the next legislative session. Warren’s motion passed by a vote of 25 to 23, crushing any chance that North Carolina would be the final state in the ratification process.. By August 21, however, Tennessee upheld ratification by a unanimous 49 to 0 vote and women officially gained the right to vote in the United States.

“The League of Women Voters of Currituck County believes that the hands-on work of an engaged citizenry can and does lead to civic improvement at all levels of government,” says  Nancy Proctor, President of LWV Currituck.. “Women’s Equality Day is a celebration of such a basic part of our democratic process—the right to vote—and the opportunities to channel that power into real, lasting change, starting at the grassroots level. As an League member, you have the opportunity to have a profound, direct and positive impact on the issues that matter most to our community, and what better day than the anniversary of the 19^th Amendment to get involved?”

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