- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Press release on legal wrangling after ratification of the 19th Amendment
- Date of Original:
- 1890/1930
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Tennessee
African Americans
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, 36.17069, -86.77753
- Medium:
- press releases
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This press release contains a 2 page statement by Carrie Chapman Catt about the machinations of the anti-suffragists to derail the ratification of the 19th Amendment by the Tennessee legislature. She refutes their constitutional arguments, calling their efforts "merely filibustering tactics" that were "subversive of majority rule."
Women--Suffrage--Tennessee. -- Constitutional amendments--United States--Ratification. -- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947. -- Women's Suffrage and Tennessee's pivotal role in passage of 19th Amendment . -- Women. -- Civil and Human Rights. -- Government and Politics. -- Seth Walker.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A15667
- 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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