Did you know? on this day...

On Jan. 12, 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote. The struggle for women's suffrage is a more than 72-year story of Perseverance: from the beginning of the movement for women's rights in 1848 (the Seneca Falls Convention) to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920...and beyond. Although the Florida legislature passed a law in 1921 that provided the vote to all residents, it was not until 1969 that it symbolically ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. Read more in "Florida Memory: State Library and Archives of Florida."