Slide 71
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Description:
Photo of the 19th Amendment.
NARRATOR: And so it was, on August 26, 1920, for the first time in its history, 144 years after the Declaration of Independence, 57 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the nation officially acknowledged, at last, that the right to vote should belong to all of its people.
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Photo Courtesy of:
Sherna Berger Gluck