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Tennessee to Commemorate Ratification of the
19th Amendment with Reenactment of Historic Vote on the House Floor
“Our Century! Living Tennessee’s History of the Ratification” takes place on August 18 at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET and will be live-streamed from the Tennessee State Capitol.
Students and educators across Tennessee are invited to tune in as the State of Tennessee commemorates its role in the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which occurred 100 years ago and guaranteed the right to vote for women throughout the United States. A reenactment of the historic and close vote will take place on the House Chamber floor at the State Capitol – the same day and place it did a century ago. It will be live-streamed beginning at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET via the TN Woman 100 Facebook page and the TN Woman 100 YouTube page. It's sponsored by The Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial.
Lesson plans, including pre and post activities and a graphic organizer for use by classroom students during the reenactment, are available on the "Educator Resources" page at TNWoman100.com. Activities are available for K-2, 3-5, and 6-12.
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| Marching Suffragists
For our Primary Source of the Month, the education team at the Tennessee State Library and Archives is honoring the Marching Suffragists. These women and others marched to gain support and attention for women's right to vote. On August 18, 1920, this right was achieved!
This march took place in Nashville. To answer the following questions, visit our website to see information on Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment.
1. What does the word suffrage mean?
2. Why is the 19th Amendment so important to women?
3. What state was the last of the necessary 36 states to secure the ratification of this amendment?
4. Who was Harry T. Burn?
5. On what date did the Tennessee General Assembly pass the 19th Amendment?
This source meets the 5.47, 8.42 and US.18 Tennessee social studies standards.
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Digital Breakouts
The Tennessee State Library and Archives is creating a series of digital breakouts for classrooms utilizing primary sources from our collection. Our first two breakouts, dedicated to women's suffrage, are below. The first breakout is geared toward students in grades K-5, and the second breakout is geared toward students in grades 6-12. Look for more breakouts coming in a few weeks! Contact education.tsla@tn.gov with questions or comments!
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Discover Tennessee History
Discover Tennessee History is excited to launch a webinar series for the 2020-2021 school year. On the second Tuesday of each month, one of our partner organizations will offer a one-hour session exploring a topic in Tennessee history. It will include related primary sources and educational resources your students can use. The first webinar is on September 8! To see a list of upcoming sessions, visit our website. There is no cost to participate in this webinar series, but you must register for each webinar individually.
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By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South (Narrated by Rosanne Cash)
Roseanne Cash tells the story of Harry T. Burn, a young Tennessee legislator who followed his mother’s advice and cast his vote to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. By changing his vote at the last minute, Burn helped ensure that the state would forever be associated with bestowing the right to vote, a fundamental civil right, on U.S. women.
By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South examines the tactics and attitudes of Tennessee and Southern suffragists, exploring how the shadow of the Confederacy and values of the “Lost Cause” shaped the fight for full female enfranchisement. Narrated by Rosanne Cash, Nashville Public Television's (NPT) original documentary chronicles the events leading up to the turbulent, nail-biting showdown of August 1920 and uses several items from the collections of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
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Tennessee Virtual Archives (TeVA) Women's Suffrage Collection
The Women's Suffrage Collection focuses on pro- and anti-suffrage activity in Tennessee in 1920, primarily drawing from the papers of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, anti-suffragist Josephine A. Pearson, and Governor Albert H. Roberts. In addition to letters, telegrams, political cartoons, broadsides, and photographs, it contains audio clips from an interview conducted in 1983 with suffragist Abby Crawford Milton.To view this source, and many more in the Women's Suffrage Collection, visit our website.
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Classroom Resources for Teaching Women's SuffrageEducator resources have been compiled by The Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial to assist educators in teaching women's suffrage.
Please visit this link: Educator Resources for lesson plans, as well as other tools to use in your classroom.
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Anne Dallas DudleyAnne Dallas Dudley was a national and state leader fighting for women's suffrage who worked tirelessly to secure the ratification of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. She was from a prominent Nashville family and married one of the founders of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company. This picture of Dudley reading with her children, Trevania and Guilford, Jr., was used in women's suffrage publicity materials to counter the stereotypes of suffragists as mannish, childless radicals intent on destroying the American family.
This source meets the 5.47, 8.42, and US.18 Tennessee social studies standards.
For more information on this source and additional Women's Suffrage primary sources, be sure to visit our website.
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Dolly Parton Sings of Suffrage
Dolly Parton sings of the August 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reserved suffrage rights for women and allowed them to vote.
"First they said we couldn't dance then said we couldn't drink. And unless some men allowed it, they said we couldn't think."
Take a listen to "19th Amendment" by Dolly Parton.
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DocsBox ReservationsWoman Suffrage DocsBoxes are available, free of charge, for use in your classroom! This educational resource provides hands-on original and reproduction historical primary sources that supplement the Tennessee social studies curriculum standards. The Woman Suffrage DocsBoxes include creative lesson plans designed by current teachers and all the materials needed for the activities.
Each DocsBox has a two-week reservation period. If multiple teachers in a school want to use the DocsBox, it can be reserved for an additional week.
To reserve your dates please visit our website.
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