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    The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women's Suffrage From Nay To Yea

    Tennessee was the final state needed to ratify the amendment that secured women the right to vote. At the last moment, a young state legislator switched his vote to yes after his mom asked him to.
    by Melissa Block Aug 17, 2020 6 minutes
    Tennessee freshman delegate Harry Burn and his mother Febb, who urged him to vote for the 19th amendment in a letter.

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified 100 years ago this week, and it comprises just 39 words:

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

    Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

    But the fight to secure women that right to vote was decades long, and the final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: state Rep. Harry T. Burn.

    "Their last best hope"

    Long after the Seneca Falls convention launched the women's suffrage movement in 1848; after suffragists had marched, picketed the White House, staged hunger strikes and endured force-feeding in prison; finally, in August of 1920, their dream was in sight.

    After rejecting the amendment for decades, on June 4, 1919, and went on to ratify it. Suffragists needed just for the

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