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I have always worked with men

She was nominated as a Democratic candidate for NC’s House of Representatives 2 months before the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920.

There’s much more to the story of how Felix Walker ‘gave new meaning to the word’ than the historical marker sign is letting on.

RE: the 1902 grand entrance of Colonel Campbell Slemp & Major C. Bascom Slemp, father and son, into active politics in Virginia.

Huntsville, Alabama-born actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) was a staunch Democrat and campaigned for Harry Truman’s reelection in 1948.

By the spring of 1920, 35 states had ratified the 19th Amendment, which would give women the right to vote. Thirty six states were required.

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