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Thanks Don. A great collaboration by some wonderful women in Nashville with the library. We look forward to sharing more of it with the world when the smoke of the virus clears.
Kent
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Dear Friends and Good People -
What a celebratory week it’s been for Tennessee !!
Earlier today, the Nashville Public Library was once again on the national stage, featured on CBS Sunday Morning in the story of
How suffragists finally won the right to vote for women.
The video tells about Nashville attorneys (and truly library friends) Jeanie Nelson and Margaret Behm, who raised almost $4 million to create a Votes for Women Room at the library.
“We really want to make sure that when people leave this room, they understand that women weren't given the vote, that it was a bitter struggle,” said Behm. “It was a battle, and it almost didn't happen.”
Margaret Behm also noted, “When you're asking, 'What is the role of women? Who gets the vote? And those in power, what they do sometimes to keep people from voting?' All of these issues were there in 1920, and are still here today.”
>>>> There are also several good resources listed for libraries to own, along with the next video.
++++> A MUST WATCH:
Documentary | By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South
To learn more about Tennessee's pivotal role in ratifying the #19thAmendment,
granting women the right to vote, watch this Nashville
Public Television documentary narrated by Rosanne
Cash: https://www.wnpt.org/citizenship-project/woman-suffrage/.
By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South examines the tactics and attitudes of Tennessee and Southern suffragists, exploring how the shadow of the Confederacy and values of the “Lost Cause” shaped the fight for full female enfranchisement. Narrated by Rosanne Cash, NPT’s original documentary chronicles the events leading up to the turbulent, nail-biting showdown of August 1920. (Look for the Jack Daniels suite.)
And, in case you missed them -
Our Century! Living Tennessee’s History of the Ratification, a reenactment of the historic and close vote for ratification that took place on August 18 on the floor of the House Chamber at the State Capitol – the same day and place it did a century ago.
Along with Holding Space: Leveraging Place to Engage Community
a visit by ALA President Julius C. Jefferson, Jr. with Nashville Public Library Executive Director Kent Oliver and Andrea Blackman (Director of the Civil Rights and Votes for Women Rooms) about how these spaces bring members of the community together to learn about the past, confront the present, and envision a better future.
All with perhaps the greatest exhortation -
Enjoy - Don
P.S. Affirming your faith in people of kindness.
Peter Rork, a retired orthopedic surgeon in Jackson, Wyoming, has co-founded the non-profit Dog Is My CoPilot, whose mission is to fly or transport dogs from areas that have a high euthanasia rate
to areas that will never put down a healthy animal.
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Donald B. Reynolds, Jr.
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