Tennessee’s newest suffrage statue unveiled in Clarksville on August 15. 2020. It’s called “Tennessee Triumph” and is located on the public square near City Hall.
Paula Casey and Bill Haltom were at The Hermitage Hotel with Joe Hanover’s bust and Bill’s new book, “Why Can’t Mother Vote?” on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The bust will be featured on the upcoming Memphis Suffrage Monument “Equality Trailblazers” this Spring.
Book Release & Signing Event – “Why Can’t Mother Vote?” Written by Bill Haltom
Thank you to everyone that could make it out to Bounty and Broad Tuesday night for the book release and signing of “Why Can’t Mother Vote?” written by author, speaker, and attorney Bill Haltom. Featured here with Bill Haltom is Paula Casey with the TN Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail and publisher Jacque Hillman.
Paula Casey (left), Bill Haltom (center) and Jacque Hillman (right) Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Haltom’s new book is now available in The Hermitage Hotel’s gift shop
Sue Shelton White committee members celebrated the 99th anniversary of Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, at Jackson City Hall. Pictured are (l-r) Ginger Terry, Mayor Scott Conger, sculptor Wanda Stanfill, and Jacque Hillman, committee chair. The new granite marker has been placed in front of the statue with donor names and the wording of the 19th Amendment.
TN Ratification Document
Tyler Boyd and Sarah Hurley visited the TN Woman Suffrage Monument in Centennial Park earlier this summer (2019). Tyler is the great-grand-nephew of Harry Burn, who was in the 1920 special session of the Tennessee legislature and cast the deciding vote for the 19th Amendment’s ratification. He has written a book about his great-grand-uncle that can be ordered by clicking on this link: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467143189
The Beasley Family honoring “Aunt Cord” by her historical marker in Camden at Benton County Courthouse on April 22, 2019. She was the first woman to legally vote on April 22, 1919.
Knox County League of Women Voters celebrate at the newly unveiled Burn Memorial in downtown Knoxville on June 9, 2018.
Twins Abbay and Phoebe Wallace, second graders at Campus School in Memphis, hold their poster and photograph of their great-great-great-grandmother, Memphis suffragist Mamie Duffy Willingham. This is what’s in Mrs. Willingham’s obituary: “When Carrie Chapman Catt fired women with dreams of voting, Mrs.
Willingham was a member of the suffrage group here, and escorted by “stunning police officers”
—- led the group’s first parade down Main.” This was written on October 15, 1952.
100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote
Maryville Celebrates 100 Years: 19th Amendment for Women’s Right to Vote 1920-2020
Images from The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage
Jesnnette Rankin
Equal Suffrage Plate
Lucy Stone
Younger – Mary Church Terrell
The Suffrage Map Early in August 1920
Alice Paul Leaves for White House
Ad: And They Got Away With It For Centuries
Ad: Goal
Mary Church Terrell
Lucretia Mott
Sue Shelton White
President Wilson Walks Past Picketed Gate
NAWSA Gets Organized
The Long Road to Nashville
Ad: TN Vote for Women
J. Frankie Pierce
The Melting Pot
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B. Anthony
Ad: Where Threes A Crowd
Ad: The Greatest Mother in the World
Lizzie Crozier French
Ad: Suffrage Ratification
Younger – Ida B Wells Portrait
Supreme Law of TN Prohibited the Ratification
Ad: Question is will they get through_Presidental Election
Ad: That Awful Height
Ida B Wells Portrait
Older – Ida B Wells Barnett
Cartoon: America When Feminized
Ad: The Dirty Pool of Politics
Cartoon: Ridicules bold lecturer France Wright
Alice Paul Toasting Suffrage Victory
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
Sue Shelton White
Mrs Dudley with her children
Lide Smith Meriwether
Sojourner Truth
National Womans Party_White House
Cartoon: Ding
The Perfect 36 Book Cover
National Womans Party_White House
Lucy Burns
Charter Members of Fisk University
Ad: Southern Chivalry Isn’t What It Use to Be
Anne Dallas Dudley with her children
Cartoon: A Society of Patriotic Ladies
Josephine Anderson Pearson
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
“Votes for Women” flag located at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, TN.“Votes for Women” pins located at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, TN.
The 3 Tennessee Trailblazers
Beth Halteman Harwell
Jane Greenebaum Eskind
Lois Marie DeBerry
These 3 Tennessee Trailblazers are featured around the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument in Nashville’s Centennial Park.
Tennessee State Markers
Votes for Women Marker – Beside the Hermitage Hotel
Woman Suffrage Rallies Marker
Abby Crawford Milton Marker
Ida B. Wells Maker
Mary Cordelia Beasley – Hudson
Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
Marion Scudder Griffin Marker
Mary Church Terrell
First Woman Elected to the State House
Marion Griffin (younger)
Marion Griffin
Marion Griffin – The Woman Citizen
Honoring Constance Rudolph Brown (March 19, 1886 – June 6, 1941)
The Clarksville-Montgomery County 2020 Vision Committee placed the first suffragist grave marker honoring Constance Rudolph Brown. The Yellow Rose Marker is placed flush with her gravestone in Sango Cemetery. She is the first local suffragist identified. In the Montgomery County courthouse, a picture of a few good men and a large number of women shows her in the front row holding a suffrage banner. During the votes for women campaign in 1917, Constance Rudolph was a rural school teacher and not yet married. Vicki O’Guin in Sango did the work in securing needed permission and Brenda Harper got the thumbs up from her niece, Rosemary Kalmar, to honor Ms. Brown.
Tennessee Suffrage Gravesites and Statues
Anne Dallas Dudley Gravesite in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville
Dallas Family Grave Marker
Frankie Pierce
Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument in Centennial Park with Mayor Jim Strickland’s Daughter, Kathleen
Sue Shelton White Statue – In Front of Jackson City Hall
Sue Shelton White Statue with Sculptor Wanda Stanfill
Sue Shelton White’s Statue
Sue Shelton White’s Statue with children and Wanda
