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Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial

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to give women the right to vote. Tennessee was the final state to ratify the amendment and have it added to the Constitution, and thus was the focus of considerable effort both from local women and women who travelled from other states to assist them. The ratification vote was passed on August 18,
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was the speaker at the unveiling; she was the first female judge on a Tennessee court of appeals and the first woman on the Tennessee Supreme Court.
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The bronze sculpture depicts three women who were leading campaigners for women's suffrage:
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The sculpture was commissioned by the Suffrage Coalition and designed and created by
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Monuments and memorials to women's suffrage in the United States
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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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List of monuments and memorials to women's suffrage
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a bronze sculpture of three striding women
Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
Lizzie Crozier French
Anne Dallas Dudley
Alan LeQuire
Knoxville, Tennessee
Coordinates
35°57′53″N 83°55′10″W / 35.96476°N 83.91937°W / 35.96476; -83.91937
Market Square
Knoxville
Tennessee
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Alan LeQuire
Martha Craig Daughtrey
Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
Memphis
Lizzie Crozier French
Anne Dallas Dudley
Nashville
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
List of monuments and memorials to women's suffrage
"Tennessee Woman's Suffrage Monument Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution"


"Tennessee Woman's Suffrage Memorial"
"TN Woman's Suffrage Memorial"

Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial
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2006 sculptures

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