Josephine Anderson Pearson
(1868-1944)
Antisuffragist, Educator

Published Biographical Sources

Sims, Anastatia. "'Powers that Pray' and 'Powers that Prey': Tennessee and the Fight for Woman Suffrage." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 50 (Winter 1991): 203-25. Includes photograph.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed. Votes for Women!: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
See index for coverage. Includes a biographical profile, photographs of Pearson, the text of her memoir ("My Story") and of her "President's Message," in which she resigned from the leadership of the antisuffragists.

Manuscript Collection

Pearson, Josephine A. Papers. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.



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