Votes For Women

Louisiana said no. On June 2, 1920 the House passed a state suffrage amendment, but the Senate rejected it on June 17, and the legislature voted against ratifying the federal amendment and adjourned on July 9 without acting. Tennessee supplied the 36th state in August. Louisiana ratified the 19th Amendment on June 11, 1970. Kate Gordon, who led a Southern states suffrage club, opposed a federal amendment on states' rights grounds, and Black women had been excluded from the movement's 1903 national convention in New Orleans.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — steps away
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 0.5 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 0.7 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 5.1 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• The Founding of Baton Rouge — steps away
• Slim Harpo — steps away
• Caroline Durieux — steps away
• Capture of Baton Rouge by Galvez, 1779 — steps away