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1800s and 1900s have aged poorly, from barring women and minorities from voting to the commonplace bigotry against people with different types of abilities, now widely condemned today. >> congress approved the 19th amendment. the ladies appeared at the polls on election day by the hundreds of thousands. >> six negro girls, three negro boys entered high school. >> they were ready to march, and they marched. >> this march will go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest demonstrations for freedom and human dignity. >> the civil rights act of 1964 is signed at the white house by president...

♪ the great capitol on the hill has been the home of congress since the year 1800. here the congress of the united states assembles to make the nation's laws. congress approved the 19th amendment which provided for the voting rights of women. speaker gillette of the house signed the bill -- ♪ >> december 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. >> serving their country and the cause of freedom to help other nations strengthen their independence and cure the social chaos in which communism has always thrived. >> it is wrong, deadly wrong to

Arizona to shatter the record for a jump of this kind. melanie curtis was among them. were you nervous at all when you were doing this ( laughs ) >> when wasn't i nervous? >> reporter: the effort was organized by project 19, the skydiving group aims to inspire girls and women by honoring the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. >> it's about doing things that have never been done. it's about saying "we're not going to be small and silent. we're going to speak up. we're going to vote." >> reporter: there are 35,000 active skydivers in the u.s., but only 14% are female. >> we w...

Finally tonight. lessons on living a long life and why voting is so important from a voter who knows a lot about both. because she's more than a century old. our tampa station wtsp has her story. >> i'm 106. i'll be 107. >> what's the secret? is it voting? >> i think good living and as i tease these people here. i have my glass of scotch every night before i go to bed. >> margaret was born in england. she moved to the united states as a young girl in the mid 1920s. just a few years after the 19th amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote. >> our forefathers fought to get the vote...

Did you know that Vermont didn’t ratify the 19th Amendment that gave women the vote until more than a year after national ratification?