Exhibit highlights NC's discomfort with 19th Amendment
RALEIGH — North Carolina has a less-than-friendly history with the 19th Amendment, as a small exhibit traveling the state to mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage makes clear.The exhibit includes the jacket of the first suffrage bill filed in 1897, indicating it was sent to a legislative panel called the Committee on Insane Asylums, and a telegram North Carolina legislators sent to their colleagues in Tennessee asking them not to approve the amendment, which […]
