Books, Articles, & Theses

Ambrose, Andrew M. "Sister Reforms: An Examination of the Relationship Between the Tennessee Women's Temperance Union and the State Woman's Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1979.

Arendale, Marirose. "Tennessee and Women's Rights." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 39 (1980): 62-78.

Bailey, Clay. "Looking Back at the Ruskin Cooperative Association." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 63 (Summer 1994): 100-113.
Women's roles and rights at Ruskin are discussed on page 108.

Berkeley, Kathleen Christine. "Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, "An Advocate for Her Sex": Feminism and Conservatism in the Post-Civil War South." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 43 (1984): 390-407.

Bucy, Carole Stanford. "'The Thrill of History Making': Suffrage Memories of Abby Crawford Milton." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 55 (Fall 1996): 224-39.

Catt, Carrie Chapman, and Nettie Rogers Shuler. Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. An electronic version of this work is available at: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/rbnawsahtml/nawshom.html. Choose "Search the Collection," and search for inner story. See chapter 30, "Tennessee," on pages 422-461.

Censer, Jane Turner. "'Smiling Through Her Tears': Ante-bellum Southern Women and Divorce." American Journal of Legal History 25 (January 1981): 24-47.

Crawford, Margaret L. "The Legal Status of Women in Early Tennessee: Knox, Jefferson, and Blount Counties, 1792-1843." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, 1992.

Goodheart, Lawrence, Neil Hanks, and Elizabeth Johnson. "'An Act for the Relief of Females...': Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee, 1796-1860, Part I." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 44 (Fall 1985): 318-39.

------. "'An Act for the Relief of Females...': Divorce and the Changing Legal Status of Women in Tennessee, 1796-1860, Part II." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 44 (Winter 1985): 402-16.

Goodstein, Anita Shafer. "A Rare Alliance: African American and White Women in the Tennessee Elections of 1919 and 1920." Journal of Southern History 64 (1998): 219-46.

Green, Elna C. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Hahn, Nicolas Fischer. "Female State Prisoners in Tennessee: 1831-1979." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 39, no. 4 (1980): 485-497.

Hoyt, Elizabeth Stone. "Some Phases of the History of the Women's Movement in Tennessee." Masters Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1931.

Huehls, Betty Sparks. "Sue Shelton White: The Making of a Radical." West Tennessee Historical Society Publications 48 (1994): 24-34.

Louis, James P. "Sue Shelton White and the Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, 1913-1920." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 22 (1963): 170-190.

McNamara, Billie R. "An Introduction to the History of Tennessee's Confusing Land Laws" [online]. Available from http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~kizzer/research/landlaws.htm.

Prescott, Grace Elizabeth. "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Memphis: Its place in the State, Sectional, and National Movements." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 18 (1964): 87-106.

Russell, Janette C. "The Perfect Thirty-Six: Tennessee and the Woman Suffrage Movement." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 49 (1995): 238-42.

Scott, Anne F. "After Suffrage: Southern Women in the Twenties." Journal of Southern History 30 (1964): 298-318.

Sims, Anastatia. "'Powers That Pray' and 'Powers That Prey': Tennessee and the Fight for Woman Suffrage." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 50, no. 4 (1991): 203-225.

Taylor, Antoinette Elizabeth. "A Short History of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 2 (1943): 195-215.

------. "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee." Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1943. New York: Bookman, 1957.

Thompson, Ruth Anne. "After Suffrage: Women, Law and Policy in Tennessee, 1920-1980." Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1994.

Vertrees, John J. An Address to the Men of Tennessee on Female Suffrage. Nashville, TN, 1916.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Reviewed by Janice M. Leone in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 53 (Summer 1994): 144.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed. Votes for Women! The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
Online description from UT Press: http://www.lib.utk.edu/UTKgophers/UT-PRESS/Recent-Titles/02Wheeler.html

Yellin, Carol Lynn, and Janann Sherman. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Edited by Ilene Jones-Cornwell. Memphis, Tenn.: Serviceberry Press, 1998.

Films & Videos

The Perfect 36: Woman's Quest for Equality. 60 min. Hungry Ear Productions, 1995. Videocassette.

Internet Multimedia Sites

Winning the Vote for Women: The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection, 1860-1920. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Connect to this site, and enter Tennessee as a search term.

Manuscripts & Archives

Catt, Carrie Chapman. Papers. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

Donelson, Bettie Mitzell. Papers. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
Donelson was an early worker in the Tennessee suffrage campaign.

Nashville Woman Suffrage Association. Records, 1918-19. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

Pearson, Josephine Anderson. Papers, ca. 1860-1943. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
Pearson was president of the Tennessee State Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, 1916-20.

Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association. Records. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

White, Sue Shelton. Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.
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