List of Tennessee suffragists

This is a list of Tennessee suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Tennessee.

Groups

• Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]

Suffragists

• Mattie E. Coleman (1870–1943) – physician, suffragist. ^[2]
• Maria Thompson Daviess (1872–1924) – co-founder and vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Nashville, Tennessee; organizer of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Madison, Tennessee. ^[3]
• Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955) – suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with Abby Crawford Milton and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ^{[4] [5]}
• Abby Crawford Milton (1881–1991) – traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ^{[4] [5]}
• Juno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864–1954) – African-American suffragist. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}
• Julia Sears (1840–1929) – pioneering academic, suffragist in Tennessee. ^[10]

Suffragists campaigning in Tennessee

• Margaret Foley. ^[11]
• Edna Buckman Kearns. ^[12]

References

1. Carole Stanford Bucy (December 25, 2009). "Abby Crawford Milton". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Version 2.0. Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
2. Smith, Jessie Carney (1992). Notable Black American Women. VNR AG. pp. 125–128. ISBN   9780810391772.
3. Wake, Gary (October 8, 2017). "Daviess, Maria Thompson". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
4. "Services For Mrs. Dudley To Be Held Thursday". Nashville Banner. 14 September 1955.
5. Anastatia Sims (1998). "Woman Suffrage Movement". In Carroll Van West. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society. ISBN   1-55853-599-3.
6. The African-American history of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780–1930: elites and dilemmas, by Bobby L. Lovett, University of Arkansas Press, 1999, p. 232
7. Tennessee Through Time, The Later Years. Gibbs Smith. 2007. pp. 174–. ISBN   978-1-58685-806-3.
8. "Black History Month: J. Frankie Pierce founded school for girls | The Tennessean | tennessean.com". Archive.tennessean.com. February 14, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2015.^{[ dead link ]}
9. "Frankie Pierce & the Tennessee Vocational School for Colored Girls". Ww2.tnstate.edu. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
10. Burkhalter, Harris (April 7, 2015). "Mankato's teacher college was a 19th-century pioneer for women's rights — for about a year". MinnPost. Retrieved December 4, 2024.
11. "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
12. Kearns, Marguerite Buckman. "Biographical Sketch of Edna May Buckman Kearns". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920– via Alexander Street.