William B. Oliver of Tuscaloosa, had voted in favor.[4]

Because of the campaign no convention took place in 1919. On April
8-9, 1920, the last one of the State Equal Suffrage Association, as
such, was held in Montgomery. A large "pioneer luncheon" was given in
the Exchange Hotel and a beautiful set of silver baskets was presented
to Mrs. Jacobs. The sessions were held in the Senate chamber of the
historic Capitol and by unanimous consent the association was merged
into the State League of Women Voters. Mrs. A. J. Bowron was elected
chairman.

After the amendment was finally ratified by the necessary 36 States
there was a victory parade in Birmingham in which 1,500 took part. A
brass band headed 36 automobiles, each a mass of banners, flags and
flowers, labeled in the order in which the States ratified. Mrs.
Jacobs and the pioneers led the marchers, followed by professional and
business women, the League of Women Voters, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union and other organizations. It ended with addresses and
singing in Capitol Park.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Pattie Ruffner
Jacobs, eight years president of the State Equal Suffrage Association,
three years auditor of the National Association and now secretary of
the National League of Women Voters; also to Miss Helen J. Benners,
research chairman of the State League of Women Voters.

[2] Those who held office in the State association during the next
eight years were as follows: Mrs. Milton Humes, Mrs. Frederick D.
Losey, Mrs. Parke, Mrs. Angus Taylor, Mrs. J. D. Wilkins, Mrs. W. J.
Chambers, Miss Annie Joe Coates, Mrs. John Lusk, Mrs. Leon Weil.

[3] On June 17, 1919, Mrs. James S. Pinckard called a meeting of women
of wealth and social standing at her home in Montgomery. With the help
of a constitutional lawyer they organized the Southern Women's
Anti-Ratification League, with Mrs. Pinckard chairman, Mrs. Charles
Henderson, vice-chairman; Mrs. W. T. Sheehan, secretary; Mrs. Marie
Bankhead Owen (daughter of the Senator), chairman of the Legislative
Committee. Members of the Executive Committee were Mesdames Charles S.
Thigpen, Hails Janney, Jack Thorington, J. A. Winter, Ormond
Somerville, W. J. Hannah, Clayton T. Tullis, J. Winter Thorington, E.
Perry Thomas, William M. E. Ellsberry, J.H. Naftel, W. B. Kelly and
Miss Mae Harris. They sent a memorial to the Legislature which began:
"We look with confidence to you to pr