The Tennessee Vote That Finished the Nineteenth Amendment

On August 18, 1920, a 24-year-old Tennessee legislator wearing a red rose, the color of a vote against, walked in with a letter from his mother in his pocket. Harry Burn cast the vote that finished the Nineteenth Amendment. How a seventy-two year campaign came down, in the end, to one young man and a note that told him to be a good boy.Field Notes on the Republic was written and read by Michael Fowler. It was produced for Quorum (Supply Co.), an American civic purveyor. Music is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," performed by the U.S. Military Academy Band, West Point.