36 min
S01 E10 Tennessee: The Fight To Become The Perfect 36 Her March to Democracy
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In this episode, Paula Casey discusses the stories of the suffrage struggle in Tennessee.We talk about the activists in the TN campaign:Juno Frankie Pierce and Dr. Mattie Coleman aided 2,000 African American women to vote in Nashville after the state partial suffrage law passed in 1919.Joseph Hanover–a Polish Jewish immigrant–was key to organizing the final dramatic victory in the legislature. Lide Smith Meriwether wrote an 1895 petition demanding the women's vote and status as independe...
In this episode, Paula Casey discusses the stories of the suffrage struggle in Tennessee.We talk about the activists in the TN campaign:Juno Frankie Pierce and Dr. Mattie Coleman aided 2,000 African American women to vote in Nashville after the state partial suffrage law passed in 1919.Joseph Hanover–a Polish Jewish immigrant–was key to organizing the final dramatic victory in the legislature. Lide Smith Meriwether wrote an 1895 petition demanding the women's vote and status as independe...
36 min