Women won the right to vote with no help from Florida

ESSENTIAL NEWS. August 21, 2025. Florida Weekly

Women’s Equality Day arrives next week, commemorating the 1920 enactment of the Constitution’s 19th Amendment, which enshrined the right of women to vote.

The State of Florida, when asked to join the rest of the country in ratifying the amendment, declined. In fact, the state didn’t even consider it then, but finally got around to signing it in—get this!…