Joint Resolution of the Maryland General Assembly rejecting and refusing to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 1920.
Maryland General Assembly
United States--Maryland
Women--Suffrage--Maryland
Joint resolution in which the Maryland legislature explained why they would not ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Maryland legislature rejected the 19th amendment in 1920 because they felt that the amendment impeded states rights. Maryland did not formally ratify the 19th Amendment until 1941.
General Assembly (Joint Resolutions)
1920
English
DOCU.1920.09
Pamphlet : Do you know "all the reasons why the ballot should not be granted to women?" Here's the answer. 1915
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
United States --Pennsylvania --Harrisburg
Women --Suffrage --Pennsylvania
Sixteen pages are left blank.
This pamphlet was created to lobby for the upcoming suffrage referendum in Pennsylvania. Held November 2, 1915, Pennsylvania voters defeated the suffrage amendment by a margin of 55,000 (out of 800,000 votes cast).
In June 1919, Pennsylvania was among the first states to ratify the nineteenth amendment.
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
1915
16 [3] p.
English
DOCU.1000.02
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania