Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, back row, far right, meets with fellow suffragettes. Several Alabama women were
Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives

Woman Suffrage Meeting

Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, back row, far right, meets with fellow suffragettes. Several Alabama women were eager participants in the suffrage movement, although Alabama did not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment until 1953, long after its 1920 passage.

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