Carmen Perrine

In reference to Jessica's remarks on Monday, June 5, would someone please inform Jessica that from 1913 to 1919 the Democrats in control of Congress five (FIVE!) times defeated legislation to give women the right to vote. In May 1919 a newly elected Republican Congress met in special session and its first act was passage of the Equal Suffrage Amendment. When the amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states which ratified the 19th Amendment to our Constitution had Republican legislatures. Speaking of suffrage, not one Democrat voted for the 15th Amendment giving black males the right to vote.