Camilla Can Vote: Celebrating the Centennial of Ladies’s Proper to Vote

Camilla’s class journey to the historical past museum proved to be each instructive and enlightening when Camilla is transported again to August 18, 1920. That’s when girls achieved the precise to vote with the “Sure” vote from Harry T. Burn, a younger legislature from East Tennessee whose mom inspired him to do the precise factor by breaking the 48-48 tie within the Tennessee Home of Representatives. Till that day, girls didn’t have the identical rights as males.

Harry T. Burn’s mom wrote, “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t hold them unsure. I discover a number of the speeches towards. They had been bitter. I’ve been watching to see the way you stood, however haven’t seen something but.” She ended her letter with a rousing endorsement of the nice suffragist chief Carrie Chapman Catt, asking her son to “…be a superb boy and assist Mrs. Catt put the ‘rat’ in ratification.”

Be part of Camilla as she learns the thrilling (and controversial!) historical past of ladies gaining the precise to vote with the ratification of the nineteenth Modification to the U.S. Structure.