{"id":12237,"date":"2019-11-13T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:28:06","slug":"suffrage-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2019\/11\/13\/suffrage-100\/","title":{"rendered":"NPT\u2019s \u2018By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South\u2019 premieres Thursday, Nov. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNashville Public Television\u2019s By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South, <\/strong>the latest documentary in our Citizenship Project<\/strong> series, premieres on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m.<\/strong> Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash narrates this chronicle of events leading to the turbulent, nail-biting showdown that took place Aug. 18, 1920, in the Tennessee General Assembly. By a single legislator\u2019s vote, which was influenced by a note from his mother, Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment giving women in the United States the right to vote.<\/p>\n

The U.S. woman\u2019s suffrage movement began in the Northeast as an offshoot of the anti-slavery movement. By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South <\/strong>tells the lesser-known history of the efforts by Southern women to gain the vote in the years following the Civil War through 1920. \u201cIt was a different story than what happened in the North and in it was in some ways the least successful part of the movement,\u201d said Mary Makley, the documentary\u2019s producer. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to tell how difficult it was to be a Southern suffragist within the broader context of how Tennessee got to be the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen\u2019s legal position was pretty much the same as the legal position of felons,\u201d says Wanda Sobieski, J.D.,<\/strong> president of Knoxville\u2019s Suffrage Coalition, in the documentary. Married women had no rights in terms of property, not even to income they might have earned. They did not have child custody rights in cases of divorce.<\/p>\n

By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South<\/strong> highlights major figures in Tennessee\u2019s suffrage movement such as Anne Dallas Dudley and Sue Shelton White; as well as anti-suffragist Josephine Pearson and key legislator Harry T. Burn. Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul are among the national activists referenced in the documentary.<\/p>\n