Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

This guide to the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument in Washington, D.C. follows a hand-sewn purple, white, and gold flag that the National Woman's Party stitched star by star as states ratified the nineteenth amendment starting in 1919. It traces the tense wait by telegraph for word from state capitals, with room on the flag for exactly thirty-six stars, and lands on the deadlocked Tennessee legislature and a young lawmaker named Harry Burn carrying a letter from his mother. Listen for how the party later carried that flag into this very house.