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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Records of the National Woman's Party
When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug 18, 1920, Alice Paul, National Chairman of the Woman's Party, unfurled the ratification banner from Suffrage headquarters
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Washington, D.C.
August 18, 1920
Washington, D.C.
August 18, 1920
Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify to the 19th Amendment. Once Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party received word of Tennessee's ratification, she hung this ratification banner from the balcony of the NWP headquarters in Washington, D.C.