"Anti-suffrage answers"
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Anti-suffrage talking points include the declaration "Government is MAN'S work."
The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution granted women the right to vote. When the Tennessee General Assembly passed the ratification resolution on August 18, 1920, it gave the amendment the 36th and final state necessary for ratification. Suffragists and anti-suffragists lobbied furiously to secure votes during that intense summer in Nashville. The ratification resolution passed easily in the Tennessee State Senate on August 13, but the House of Representatives was deadlocked. When young Harry T. Burn of Niota changed his vote to support ratification of the 19th Amendment, he broke a tie in the House of Representatives and made history. Josephine A. Pearson (1868-1944) was an educator from Monteagle who became president of the Tennessee State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and the Southern Women's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. She worked tirelessly with various women's groups, religious and political leaders throughout Tennessee in an unsuccess
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- New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
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- Digital Library of Tennessee
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- Tennessee State Library & Archives
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- Women -- Suffrage -- Tennessee
Constitutional amendments -- United States -- Ratification
Sex role -- United States -- 20th century
Women in public life
Women -- Political activity -- United States
Campaign literature
Broadsides
Political organizations
Women's rights
Women's suffrage - Location
- New York (N.Y.)
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- text
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- Broadsides
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- New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. "Anti-suffrage answers". undated. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll27/id/56. (Accessed May 28, 2020.)
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- New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, (undated) "Anti-suffrage answers". Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll27/id/56
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- New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll27/id/56>.