Dear Friends and Good People -
Tennessee has been in the news recently, and didn’t want you to miss several significant events.
“Holding Space: A national conversation series with libraries” http://www.ala.org/advocacy/holding-space is
the American Library Association’s nationwide virtual tour to highlight the innovation and impact of a diverse range of libraries and engage stakeholders to advocate for libraries and the communities they serve.
Hosted July 27 through August 7 by ALA President
Julius C. Jefferson, Jr., the tour highlighted the broader work to build relationships and strengthen connections,
featuring town halls, round table discussions, and interviews with library leaders, state and local partners, and elected officials covering topics ranging from
HBCUs and academic libraries, to school, tribal, and public libraries - all while amplifying the concerns of each community along the route.
On Stop 4, President Jefferson visited 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.
More than 17 years in the making, the Nashville Public Library Civil Rights
Room has served as a center for engagement and community dialogue. Exhibited materials capture the drama of a time when thousands of African American citizens in Nashville sparked a nonviolent challenge
to racial segregation in the city and across the South.
The space provides the City of Nashville a safe and welcoming space where the community can come and honor the history of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy. It also creates opportunities
for dialogue and to explore our own personal responsibility as we continue the legacy of local and national Civil Rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, Diane Nash, and Marion Barry.
This visit includes sneak peek at the soon-to-be unveiled
Votes for Women Room.
Nashville Public Library’s efforts to serve as a conduit for community conversations will be enhanced with the opening of the Votes for Women Room in August. Like many of the other educational
and inspirational resources the library offers, the room will commemorate another movement of historical significance and contemporary relevance – The Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Enjoy a visit to Nashville Public at Holding Space: Leveraging Place to Engage Community
In addition, on Tuesday, August 18 there is the Commemorate Ratification of the 19th Amendment
with a Reenactment of the Historic Vote on the House Floor of the Tennessee State Capitol.
“Our Century! Living Tennessee’s History of the Ratification”
takes place on August 18 at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET
and will be live-streamed from the Tennessee State Capitol via the
Check further details in this newsletter from the Tennessee State Library and Archives:
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August 2020 Newsletter from the Library and Archives
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Tennessee to Commemorate Ratification of the
19th Amendment with Reenactment of Historic Vote on the House Floor
“Our Century! Living Tennessee’s History of the Ratification” takes place on August 18 at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET and will be live-streamed from the Tennessee
State Capitol.
Students and educators across Tennessee are invited to tune in as the State of Tennessee commemorates its role in the ratification of the
19th Amendment, which occurred 100 years ago and guaranteed the right to vote for women throughout the United States. A reenactment of the historic and close vote will take place on the House Chamber floor at the State Capitol – the same day and place it did
a century ago. It will be live-streamed beginning at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET via the TN
Woman 100 Facebook page and the TN
Woman 100 YouTube page. It's sponsored by The
Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial.
Lesson plans, including pre and post activities and a graphic organizer for use by classroom students during the reenactment, are available on the "Educator
Resources" page at TNWoman100.com.
Activities are available for K-2, 3-5, and 6-12.
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Marching Suffragists
For our Primary Source of the Month, the education
team at the Tennessee State Library and Archives is honoring the Marching Suffragists. These women and others marched to gain support and attention for women's right to vote. On August 18, 1920, this right was achieved!
This march took place in Nashville. To answer the following questions, visit our website to
see information on Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment.
1. What does the word suffrage mean?
2. Why is the 19th Amendment so important to women?
3. What state was the last of the necessary 36 states to secure the ratification of this amendment?
4. Who was Harry T. Burn?
5. On what date did the Tennessee General Assembly pass the 19th Amendment?
This source meets the 5.47, 8.42 and US.18 Tennessee social studies standards.
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Digital Breakouts
The Tennessee State Library and Archives is creating a series of digital breakouts for classrooms utilizing primary sources from our collection. Our first two breakouts, dedicated to women's suffrage, are below. The first breakout is geared toward students
in grades K-5, and the second breakout is geared toward students in grades 6-12. Look for more breakouts coming in a few weeks! Contact [log in to unmask]" data-type="email" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" class="">[log in to unmask] with
questions or comments!
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Discover Tennessee History
Discover Tennessee History is excited to launch a webinar series for the 2020-2021 school year. On the second Tuesday of each month, one of our partner organizations will offer a one-hour session exploring a topic
in Tennessee history. It will include related primary sources and educational resources your students can use. The first webinar is on September 8! To see a list of upcoming sessions, visit our website.
There is no cost to participate in this webinar series, but you must register for each webinar individually.
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By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South (Narrated
by Rosanne Cash)
Roseanne Cash tells the story of Harry T. Burn, a young Tennessee legislator who followed his mother’s advice and cast his vote to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. By changing his vote at the last minute, Burn helped ensure that the state
would forever be associated with bestowing the right to vote, a fundamental civil right, on U.S. women.
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, Nashville Public Television's (NPT) original documentary chronicles the events leading up to the turbulent, nail-biting showdown of August 1920 and uses several items from the collections of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
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Tennessee Virtual Archives (TeVA) Women's Suffrage Collection
The Women's Suffrage Collection focuses on pro- and anti-suffrage activity in Tennessee in 1920, primarily drawing from the papers of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, anti-suffragist Josephine A. Pearson, and Governor
Albert H. Roberts. In addition to letters, telegrams, political cartoons, broadsides, and photographs, it contains audio clips from an interview conducted in 1983 with suffragist Abby Crawford Milton.
To view this source, and many more in the Women's Suffrage Collection, visit our website.
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Classroom Resources for Teaching Women's Suffrage
Educator resources have been compiled by The Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial to assist educators in
teaching women's suffrage.
Please visit this link: Educator Resources for
lesson plans, as well as other tools to use in your classroom.
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Anne Dallas Dudley
Anne Dallas Dudley was a national and state leader fighting for women's suffrage who worked tirelessly to secure the ratification of the 19th
Amendment in Tennessee. She was from a prominent Nashville family and married one of the founders of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company. This picture of Dudley reading with her children, Trevania and Guilford, Jr., was used in women's suffrage publicity
materials to counter the stereotypes of suffragists as mannish, childless radicals intent on destroying the American family.
This source meets the 5.47, 8.42,
and US.18 Tennessee social studies standards.
For more information on this source and additional Women's Suffrage primary sources, be sure to visit our website.
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Dolly Parton Sings of Suffrage
Dolly Parton sings of the August 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reserved suffrage rights for women
and allowed them to vote.
"First they said we couldn't dance then said we couldn't drink. And unless some men allowed it, they said we couldn't think."
Take a listen to "19th Amendment" by Dolly Parton.
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DocsBox Reservations
Woman Suffrage DocsBoxes are available, free of charge, for use in your classroom! This educational resource provides hands-on original and
reproduction historical primary sources that supplement the Tennessee social studies curriculum standards. The Woman Suffrage DocsBoxes include creative lesson plans designed by current teachers and all the materials needed for the activities.
Each DocsBox has a two-week reservation period. If multiple teachers in a school want to use the DocsBox, it can be reserved for an additional
week.
To reserve your dates please visit our website.
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CBS Sunday Morning highlighted Tennessee on Aug 16 with a story about Nashville's
Ryman Auditorium, hallowed ground for music fans.
In late June, Ryman Auditorium – a Nashville landmark for more than 125 years, and one-time home to the Grand Ole Opry – reopened
for tours after closing due to COVID-19. Correspondent Mark Strassmann looks at the history of the Ryman, which has hosted not just country musicians but also legends of folk, rock and hip hop; and talks with some of the artists (including Sheryl Crow and
Ketch Secor, of Old Crow Medicine Show) who have graced its stage. even of you’re not particularly fond of country music.
Speaking of the Opry, no review of Tennessee news would be complete without mention of
Dolly Parton.
Well, she also happens to be big in country music (9 Grammy awards), celebrating her 50-year anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry last
October.
She still lives with her same first husband (just over 50 years married) now in Brentwood, where they moved in 1999.
Enjoy the tour:
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Donald B. Reynolds, Jr.
P.O. Box 278
Talbott, Tennessee 37877
865.475.2030
2019-2021 Past President; 2014-17, 2018-19 President, Friends of Tennessee Libraries (FOTL)
Retired Director, Nolichucky Regional Library, Tennessee
Founding Director/Former President, Association for Rural and Small Libraries
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