The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage - Softcover

Carol Lynn Yellin; Janann Sherman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974245658 ISBN 13: 9780974245652

Publisher: Vote 70 Press, 2016

Synopsis

The authors bring to life the 72-year suffrage to earn women the right to vote which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature. The Perfect 36 gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to vote with a richly illustrated volume. The authors provide a great deal of writings of those who were involved in this important movement along with pictures and cartoons to give a vivid sense of what it was like to win enfranchisement. The Perfect 36 is an important resource for anyone interested in how women and men earned the right for women to fully participate in the democratic process of the United States. With the national centennial approaching in 2020, the importance of learning about this nonviolent revolution cannot be overstated. The suffragists proved democracy works. This book contains interviews that no other book about woman suffrage has. It is the complete history of what happened in Tennessee to secure ratification.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Perfect 36 is an important resource for anyone interested in how women and men earned the right for women to fully participate in the democratic process of the United States.

From the Inside Flap:

Cover Photograph: A Grand Celebration: According to descriptions of the occasion printed in The Commercial Appeal and the Memphis Press Scimitar, this "monster parade" of "ballot-seeking ladies" marching down Main Street in Memphis on March 30, 1916, marked the start of a "sweeping campaign to gain enfranchisement for women in Tennessee as early as possible." It reflects the inventiveness of Tennessee's suffragist, and conveys their exhilaration as they sense that they ar beginning to win their long battle for the ballot.

Courtesy Memphis Shelby County Public Library & Information Center, Memphis & Shelby County Room.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vote 70 Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0974245658
• ISBN 13: 9780974245652
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Ilene J. Cornwell
• Illustrator: Pat Dugan