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 independent citizens.
• Anne Dallas Dudley organized suffrage leagues in the state as well as the largest suffrage parade in Nashville in 1916.
• The “Suffrage Day” baseball game in 1916 in Nashville hosted the suffragist governor and featured players with yellow sashes around their waists.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Paula Casey has spent more than 30 years educating the public about Tennessee's role in ratifying the 19th Amendment. She has helped place suffragist public art across Tennessee and published the book, The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. She co-founded the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail.

Links to People, Places, Publications

• Tennessee and the 19th Amendment (here)
• TN Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail (here)
• Lide Smith Meriwether Biosketch (here)
• Visit the Equality Trailblazers monument (here)
• Joseph Hanover Biosketch (here)
• Visit the Joseph Hanover marker (here)
• Lizzie Crozier French Biosketch (here)
• Visit the Lizzie Crozier French marker in Knoxville (here)
• Juno Frankie Pierce Biosketch (here)
• Dr. Mattie Coleman Biosketch (here)
• Visit the Dr. Mattie Coleman marker in Nashville (here)
• Anne Dallas Dudley Biosketch (here)
• Visit the TN Woman Suffrage Monument (here)

CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Learn more about:

• National Votes for Women Trail (here)
• National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)
• National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)

Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org

In this episode on Oregon, Janice Dilg, consulting historian and principal of HistoryBuilt, talks about the struggle for votes for women on the NVWT.

We talk about the events and fighters in OR suffrage campaign:

• Dr. Pesie Chan, a Chinese immigrant, met with a collegiate suffrage group in 1912 at the Portland Hotel and gave a speech supporting women's suffrage.
• Esther Pohl Lovejoy created Everybody’s Equal Suffrage League that offered a lifetime membership for 25 cents.
• Hattie Redmond served as president of the Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage Association which spread “equal suffrage ideas among those of the race.”
• Katherine and Edith Gray–an African American mother-daughter team– organized voter registration and political education drives for Black voters.
• Sara Bard Field Ehrgott joined Frances Jolliffe in 1915 on a cross-country car trek to deliver a petition demanding a federal suffrage amendment to President Wilson.
• The annual Pendleton Round-up rodeo was on the suffragist speaking tour where they were regularly cheered by crowds.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Janice Dilg is principal and consulting historian of HistoryBuilt. She is a founding member of the Oregon Women’s History Consortium and was part of the 19th Amendment centennial celebration in 2020. She is the State Coordinator for the NVWT.

Links to People, Places, Publications

• Oregon and the 19th Amendment (here)
• Women’s Suffrage in Oregon (here)
• Visit the State Capitol and the Votes for Women Trail marker (here)
• Abigail Scott Duniway Biographical Sketch (here)
• Esther Pohl Lovejoy Biographical Sketch (here)
• Chinese American Woman Suffrage in 1912 Portland (here)
• Harriet “Hattie” Redmond Biographical Sketch (here)
• Katherine Gray Biographical Sketch (here)
• Edith Gray Biographical Sketch (here)
• Sara Bard Field Biographical Sketch (here)
• Sylvia Thompson Biographical Sketch (here

CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Learn more about:

• National Votes for Women Trail (here)
• National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)
• National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)

Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org

In this episode, Marsha Weinstein, past president of the NCWHS, discusses the struggle for the women’s vote at sites on the NVWT.

We talk about the activists in KY votes for women campaigns:

• Susan Look Avery was an inclusive voice in the suffrage movement by advocating for both Black and white women.
• Georgia and Alice Nugent played a pivotal role in advancing the African American suffrage movement and were later active in voter education.
• Josephine Henry fought for equality for women under the law as well as being the first woman to run for statewide office.
• Eugenia Farmer became a leader in the suffrage movement after befriending Susan B. Anthony.
• Dr. Mary E. Britton was a political activist and was the first African-American female doctor in the state of Kentucky.
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge lectured on women’s suffrage extensively, even traveling while she suffered from tuberculosis.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Marsha Weinstein is a past president of the NCWHS and has researched and spoken extensively on the women’s suffrage movement. She is the NVWT State Coordinator and was highly instrumental in the growth of the NVWT.

Links to People, Places, Publications

• Kentucky and the 19th Amendment (here)
• History of Women’s Suffrage in Kentucky (here)
• Susan Look Avery Biographical Sketch (here)
• Visit the Susan Look Avery marker (here)
• Georgia Anne Nugent Biographical Sketch (here)
• Visit the Nugent sisters’ marker (here)
• Josephine Henry Biographical Sketch (here)
• Visit the Josephine Henry marker (here)
• Eugenia B. Farmer Biographical Sketch (here)
• Visit the Eugenia B. Farmer marker (here)
• Dr. Mary E. Britton Biographical Sketch (here)
• Visit the Dr. Mary E. Britton marker (here)
• Mary Barr Clay Biographical Sketch (here

CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Learn more about:

• National Votes for Women Trail (here)
• National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)
• National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)

Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org