Educational Resources for “To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women’s Fight for the Vote”

“To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women’s Fight for the Vote” is currently on display at the Jonesborough & Washington County History Museum. As part of the exhibit, there are lots of great educational resources people can access if they’d like to know more. Follow the links below for additional information on the fight for the 19th amendment and the pivotal role Tennessee played.

 

Tennessee State Museum recently opened Ratified! Tennessee Women and the Right to Vote, an 8,000 square foot exhibition exploring the Women’s Suffrage movement in Tennessee, as well as, an online component called Ratified! Statewide! highlighting the suffrage movement in every Tennessee county.

https://tnmuseum.org/Ratified-Statewide

 

Educator resources from a wide range of institutions and organizations have been compiled on the TNWoman100 website.

https://tnwoman100.com/educator-resources/

• Professional Development for Educators
• Lesson Plans
• Primary Source Sets
• Digital Collection & Online Exhibits
• Traveling Trunks & Docs Boxes
• Woman Suffrage Timeline
• Tennessee and the 19th Amendment for Woman Suffrage
• Historical Background
• Videos

 

Additional digital content is available on the Tennessee State Museum website and YouTube channel.

https://tnmuseum.org/kids
https://tnmuseum.org/Stories
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFTjUYCQbBVJDl6JsnygLw/videos

 

To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women’s Fight for the Vote was organized by the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum with funding provided by The Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial. This project was also funded in part by a grant from Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.