The Rome City Commission issued a proclamation Monday recognizing the efforts of the Rome-Floyd League of Women Voters and other nonpartisan womenâs organizations involved in voter education.
It marked the 100th anniversary of both the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and the first presidential election in which women voted.
The proclamation, read by Commissioner Sundai Stevenson, recognized the Rome chapter of the LWV, which was originally established in 1919, for their work in voter registration and encouraging women to vote.
It went on to say that the 19th amendment itself âwas instrumental in the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (amended in 1975) which largely eradicated citizen disenfranchisement by racial discrimination.â