Daily WordRow: Tennessee’s role in women’s right to vote
The Memphis Suffrage Monument, located in Downtown Memphis. (Courtesy Paula Casey)
On Aug. 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, which enshrined the right to vote for American women in the U.S. Constitution. The House concurred with the state Senate, which had voted 25-4 a few days before to ratify. Tennessee was the last of the 48 states that could possibly ratify.
The 72-year-long struggle culminated with victory in Tennessee, thanks to the unceasing efforts of suffragists across the state, a united Shelby County legislative delegation and the leadership of Rep. Joseph Hanover of Memphis. A.H. Roberts, Tennessee’s governor at the time, signed the ratification papers on Aug. 24 — despite enormous opposition — and sent them to U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby in Washington, D.C., who signed the final ratification papers on Aug. 26, now known as Women’s Equality Day.
This game follows some of the conventions of Wordle. You get six tries to guess each individual word. If a letter on the keypad turns yellow, the letter is in that specific word, but it’s in the wrong spot. If it turns green, the letter is in the right spot. If it turns gray, it’s not part of the word.
But unlike Wordle there can be any number of words or letters.
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