Votes For Women - Nashville, Tennessee
Posted by: BruceS
N 36° 09.822 W 086° 46.971
16S E 519530 N 4002127
Historical marker commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.
Waymark Code: WMGHK0
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/08/2013
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Text of marker:
Votes For Women
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thereby giving all American women the right to vote. After weeks of intense lobbying by national leaders, Tennessee passed the measure by one vote. The headquarters for both suffragists, wearing yellow roses, and anti-suffragists., wearing read roses, were in the Hermitage Hotel.