This month sees the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. The amendment was adopted after Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it on August 18, 1920.

One month later, on September 18, 1920, two hundred Norfolk women went to Town Hall and registered to vote, their names recorded by the town clerk, Arthur Atwood. This register along with other artifacts that document the role of Norfolk women in the long struggle to achieve suffrage, will be on display next summer when the Norfolk Historical Museum opens the exhibition “From Solitude to Sisterhood: Norfolk Women and the Vote.” In the picture above, Mrs. Amelia Taylor of Norfolk is in the front row, second from the left.