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In this broadside, the anti-suffragists proclaimed that they sought to separate women from the grunge of politics and advance the ideals of patriotism, morality and Americanism. The 19th Amendment to…

This broadside, published by some unattributed opponent of women`s suffrage, warns Southern men of the threat to states` rights if women attain the right to vote. It states that woman suffrage will re…

Letter from Vera Duggin to Gov. Clement about communism and segregation; three handwritten pages

Broadside advertising a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King at the War Memorial Building, a benefit concert by Harry Belafonte and Troupe at the Ryman Auditorium, a meeting of the Southern Christian Lead…

Lithograph of Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913) from the book "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman" by Sarah H. Bradford.

This voter registration form is executed in Madison County, (Tenn). It states that Stokely Hutchings is a male inhabitant of the State of Tennessee of the age of twenty-one years, a citizen of the Uni…

A 1915 cartoon by W. E. Hill as it appeared in "The Gracious Road to Battle" by Louise Davis in the Nashville Tennessean, January 11, 1948. The cartoon features a young woman standing before a crowd o…

Abby Crawford Milton, president of the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Association, wrote to invite the governor to the opening session of the first convention of the Tennessee Women Voters League. She worri…

Alice Paul, president of the National Woman's Party, wrote on behalf of the organization to congratulate Governor Roberts on his "splendid fight for ratification" and to express her appreciation for h…

Senator Kenneth McKellar wrote to State Treasurer Hill McAlister to encourage him to support the proposition that two women from each Congressional District be designated as associate members of the s…

In this political cartoon, an elegantly dressed Colonel Tennessee offers a chair (suffrage ratification) to a young woman representing woman suffrage. He pulls the chair from under her as she sits, an…

In this cartoon celebrating the passage of women's suffrage in Tennessee, a woman from the suffragists basketball team, wearing "Tennessee" on a ribbon around her head, shoots a basketball over a woma…

A petition addressed to the General Assembly for the restoration of "political rights" to those who had been disenfranchised. They attribute the "mischief, bitter strifes and deadly animosoties...amon…

A photograph of Jeanette Tillotson Acklen holding the banner she marched behind during the Tennessee campaign for women's suffrage. Her husband, Joseph H. Acklen, son of Adelicia and Joseph Acklen,was…