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Margaret Renkl: The final battleground in the fight for suffrage

(Brianna Paciorka | Knoxville News Sentinel via AP file photo) A statue of Febb Ensminger Burn and her son, Harry Burn, stands in downtown Knoxville, Tenn., on Feb. 3, 2020. Women in the United States were guaranteed the right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment — secured by a 24-year-old Tennessee legislator's decisive vote, cast at the bidding of his mother.