Political universe in the United States for several weeks in the summer of 1920s. Tennessee might be the last in deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment. Its a tennessee legislator did the women across the country in every state and every election for the first time would have the right to vote. It is all coming down to tennessee and he got really wild. How many women were in america at that point . About 27 million women were o of voting age. Of course not all would vote and as we know for africanamerican women and for asian women in native american women this would not be allowed to vote under the 19th amendment. But the laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote to quite a few women in a sizable minority. But 27 million women were eligible to vote and no one knew how they were going to vote and the politicians were worried about it, it was a president ial election so the president and candidates were worried and the governor is very worried and because of political f
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And americans family. She is professor of law of the new York Law School and professor of history at rutgers university. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson sally henning, which remains most influential study of the subject. She has written numerous articles on jefferson and edited forthcoming reader on jefferson and rates which will be published by Princeton University press. She also had had time to complete a short biography of Andrew Johnson which will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming a net cord in reeves. [applause] thank you, very much for that introduction i love how he says that. [laughter] say it again. Say it again. It is great to be here among some many people that i know. Such a familiar place to me i came back to monticello and many times and it is always good to be here ive never been here when is raining. So, this is an interesting thing for me. A day that began at 4 00 a. M. This morning trying to get there quickly and taking off at 1 00 s