The Knoxville Group celebrates the beginning of the women's history month with the decoration of women's electoral statue

Knoxville, tenn. – A monument in the city center of Knoxville, which the Suffragists, who were committed to the ratification of the 19th amendment and women brought the right to vote, were set up on Friday.

Knoxville's chapter of the Sufage Coalition put yellow and purple flags and flowers on the Sufse Memorial by Tennessee Woman – two colors that effectively made up the banner of the women's promotion movement. The group decorated the statues before the beginning of women's history on Saturday.

“Our goal was to localize and preserve the history of women's voting right in Tennessee because it was almost lost,” said Wanda Sobieski, the president of the coalition.

The 19th amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 – a victory for Suffragists who fought for the right to vote for decades. According to the federal archives, it took decades of excitement, protest, marches, lobbying and civil disobedience to achieve what people regarded as a “radical change” at that time. Supporters were often encountered resistance, which were able to include prison periods and physical abuse.

Most early supporters of the voting right movement did not see a day when they could legally vote. It was created in the 19th century and the change was first introduced in the congress in 1878.

Tennessee was the last state that ratified the change and said goodbye to his final hurdle to receive an agreement of three quarters of the states. Although the ratification of the 19th amendment is often advertised as a final victory of the female choice of choice, it took decades for African -American women to have the same right. According to the Federal Archives, many women were generally discriminatory voting laws, which were passed by individual states to the 20th century.