- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Questions for Mrs. Catt
- Date of Original:
- 1890/1930
- Subject:
- Women--Suffrage--Tennessee
Constitutional amendments--United States--Ratification
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women
Civil rights
Social reform movements - People:
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, 36.17069, -86.77753
- Medium:
- broadsides (notices)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This two-sided broadside contains the reprint, originally published in both the Nashville Banner and the Chattanooga Times, of an editorial and an article attacking Carrie Chapman Catt. One side contains an letter to Mrs. Catt from Mrs. James S. Pinkard, President of the Southern Women`s League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. Pinkard asks Catt to explain what she meant by statements such as "American women and men, white and black, should share equally in the privileges of democracy." She states that Tennessee legislators would violate their oaths if they vote to ratify the suffrage amendment, and demands the truth in this matter of "life and death" for the South. The other side reprints an article from The Woman Patriot, an anti-suffrage publication, which asserts that Catt defamed the United States by decrying the treatment of women with claims such as the fact that women cannot vote while aliens, illiterates, drunkards, paupers, criminals and the feeble-minded can vote.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A15621
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Digital Collection: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee: A Grassroots Approach to Volunteer Voices
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
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