Chapter 5 Lesson 3 - Life Goes On
Tennessee Through Time; The Later Years, pub. Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, 2008
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- By serving as president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and the League of Women Voters of Tennessee , Running for State Senator, and creating the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- How did Abby Crawford Milton contribute to reform in TN and American Society?
- Catherine Kinney
- Suffragist who
- Ann Dallas Dudley
- TN suffragist daughter of a wealthy Nashville family. IN 1920 was the first female delegate-at-large to attend the Democratic national convention.
- J. Frankie Pierce
- African American sufffragist who talked about how important the right to vote was to African American women be cause they wanted "a square-deal".
- Abby Crawford Milton
- Chattanooga lawyer who worked to reform Tennessee and American Society during the 1920's and 30's, lived to be 110 years old
- suffragist
- A woman who worked fro the right to vote. Wore yellow flowers during the special session to symbolize suffrage.
- Harry T. Burn
- The youngest member of the TNA General Assembly who changed his vote to a yes on the 19th ammendment. His vote for suffrage gave nearly 17 MILLION women the right to vote! Hooray!
- Because she felt both were a struggle for liberty.
- Why does Abby Crawford Milton compare women's suffrage with the Declaration of Independence?
- suffrage?
- The right to vote.
- the fiercest legislative battle ever waged on this continent
- Abby Crawford Milton described the excitement of woman suffrage as
- because it was thrilling making history.
- Why did Abby Crawford Milton say that those who stoodapart from the suffrage movement should feel like "mummies"?
- Josephine Pearson
- Anti-suffragist who wore three red roses symbolizing womanhood to the special session to ratify the 19th Amendment.
- Albert Roberts
- Governor of TN who called for a special session to ratify the Nineteenth (19th) Ammendment. It would become known as "The War of the Roses".