In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting ri

Brent Tarter and Marianne E. Julienne are editors of the Library of Virginia's Dictionary of Virginia Biography project. Barbara C. Batson is exhibitions coordinator at the Library of Virginia.