Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial
The sculpture was commissioned by the Suffrage Coalition and designed and created by Alan LeQuire. It was unveiled on August 26, 2006, as part of a day of commemorations, which included a re-enactment of a suffrage march, with women in vintage clothes and replica sashes, and carrying replica banners. Martha Craig Daughtrey 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.
The bronze sculpture depicts three women who were leading campaigners for women's suffrage: Elizabeth Avery Meriwether of Memphis, Lizzie Crozier French of Knoxville, and Anne Dallas Dudley of Nashville. The base of the sculpture features text on the campaign and a number of quotations from the campaigners, including the following by Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch:
"All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement by its own effort alone, and achieved the victory without the shedding of a drop of human blood."
See also
References
- ^ "Tennessee Woman's Suffrage Monument Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution". tnsuffragemonument.org. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ "Tennessee Woman's Suffrage Memorial". www.visitknoxville.com. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ "TN Woman's Suffrage Memorial". tnwomansmemorial.org. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
External links
- Media related to Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial at Wikimedia Commons