[/caption]The 19th amendment is about the right to vote for women. The text of the 19th amendment to the constitution of the United States is:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
It took a long time to implement it, but since 90 years it is Ok for women to vote in the US. It was put in place through the vote of 24 year old congress man Harry Burn's mother.
The mother advised him to change his vote and that was the turning point. The 19th amendment is only completely ratified in the US since 1984. That was when Mississippi finally accepted it.
In the state of New York women were allowed to vote in 1917. The following year, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson started to work on the amendment to the constitution.
Thirty-six states were necessary to ratify the 19th amendment to make it a law and that happened on August 18, 1920. The Tennessee vote to ratify hinged on one vote. Harry Burn, who had previously voted against it, changed his vote after his mother had persuaded him to do so. Sometime boys do what mothers tell them to do.
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