This is a list of Tennessee suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Tennessee.
Groups
- Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association.
Suffragists
- Mattie E. Coleman (1870âÂÂ1943) â physician, suffragist.
- Maria Thompson Daviess (1872âÂÂ1924) â co-founder and vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Nashville, Tennessee; organizer of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Madison, Tennessee.
- Anne Dallas Dudley (1876âÂÂ1955) â suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with Abby Crawford Milton and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Abby Crawford Milton (1881âÂÂ1991) â traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution
- Juno Frankie Pierce, also known as Frankie Pierce or J. Frankie Pierce (1864âÂÂ1954) â African-American suffragist.
- Julia Sears (1840âÂÂ1929) â pioneering academic, suffragist in Tennessee.
Suffragists campaigning in Tennessee
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