As February 1920 began, the fate of New Jersey’s ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the vote, was in doubt. The Philadelphia Ledger set the scene on the second of the month.
“One of the greatest battles of the present session of the New Jersey Legislature is on here this afternoon with beginning of a determined effort to bring about ratification by amendment and just as determined efforts on the part of the antis to provide that the matter shall be…
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