Blount Mansion: The Suffrage Movement

Blount Mansion will host Keeley Wade, who will speak on the suffrage movement in Tennessee. Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment in the summer of 1920 came as a shock to many; suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt confided that she did not believe there was even “a ghost of a chance” that Tennessee would become the 36th and final state needed to ratify the amendment, but it happened. Wade is a senior at the University of Tennessee, studying legal and social history.

The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center. Limited free parking is available onsite. A $5 donation is suggested at the door; cash and cards accepted. RSVP to [email protected].