James Holeshauer and Susan B. Anthony, the privilege of eternal significance.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, June 4th, 2019.

James Holeshauer won Jeopardy 32 straight times and was poised to take over the top spot on the show's all-time regular play winnings list.

That was before

Emma Becher, a librarian from Chicago, defeated him in last night's episode. While Holeshauer's

loss is making headlines this morning, another event that happened a century ago today is

receiving far less attention than it deserves. A hundred years ago today, Congress passed

the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and

Senate to the States for ratification.

It states simply, the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied

or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The amendment was

adopted by the states the following year. While it obviously changed history, the history of the

amendment is also worth our reflection this morning. In the 1872 presidential election,

Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women cast votes. At the time, women were forbidden from voting. Three weeks later,

Anthony was arrested. She was put on trial the next June. Because she was a woman, she was

forbidden from testifying in her own defense. She was found guilty of illegal voting, but never

paid the fine imposed by the judge. Four years later, Anthony led a protest at the 1876 centennial celebrating

America's independence. She made famous the declaration, men, their rights, and nothing more,

women, their rights, and nothing less. Twelve years later, she helped form the National American Women's

Suffrage Association, and led the group until 1900.

Anthony traveled across America giving speeches, gathered thousands of signatures on petitions,

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