League of Women Voters Suffrage History

1. The League of Women Voters of Nashville A Brief History of Women’s Suffrage and the Mission of the LWV

2. Mission To encourage active, informed involvement of citizens in our government

3. The Fight for Suffrage

4. Sojourner Truth 1797-1883

5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony 1815-1902 1820-1906

6. Washington Parade for Women’s Rights

7. Washington Parade for Women’s Rights

8. Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association

9. Early 1900’s

10. Ida Wells Barnett 1862-1931

11. Anne Dallas Dudley 1876-1955

12. WWI Era Suffragists

13. The fight gets ugly

14. Alice Paul 1885-1977

15. The Opposition

16. Opposition Cartoon

17. The Yellow Rose

18. Hermitage Hotel

19. Nashville, Tennessee

20. LWV Poster to Commemorate Suffrage Parade in Nashville

21. Relief in the State Capitol

22. Tennessee Makes the Headlines

23. Carrie Chapman Catt, Founder League of Women Voters 1860-1947

24. Molly Todd, Founder League of Women Voters of Nashville 1904-1998

25. Equal Rights Amendment