$3,000 - Susan B. Anthony
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
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$3,000 - Febb Burn
Wrote a letter to her son, Tennessee Representative Harry T. Burn, that caused him to switch his vote from "no" on suffrage to "Aye".
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$3,000 - Harry T. Burn
"I believe in full suffrage as a right. I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify."
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$3,000 - Lucy Burns
"It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.”
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$3,000 - Carrie Chapman Catt
"Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex."
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$3,000 - Mattie E. Coleman
First African American Physician. Established a medical practice in Clarksville, Tennessee.
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$3,000 - Anne Dallas Dudley
"This is a government of, by and for the people, and only the law denies that women are people!"
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$3,000 - Abigail Scott Duniway
"The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price."
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$3,000 - Lizzie Crozier French
"I wish I could stand here today and say 'Fellow Citizens' but since I'm not recognized as a fellow citizen, I must say citizens and fellow servants."
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$3,000 -Matilda Joslyn Gage
"Protested the Statue of Liberty unveiling saying, "It is the greatest sarcasm of the 19th century to represent liberty as a woman while not one single woman is in possession of political liberty."
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$3,000 - Joseph "Joe" Hanover
“The entire world has cast its eyes on Tennessee. . . I am here voting for this amendment because it is a moral question.”
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$3,000 - Helen Keller
“We believe that it takes both men and women to run the world and to run it right.”
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$3,000 - Mrs. T. W. McTeer (Mary Wilson)
The first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in Tennessee.
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$3,000 - Inez Milholland
"I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights."
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$3,000 - Alice Duer Miller
"Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . ."
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$3,000 - Abby Crawford Milton
The last president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and the first president of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee.
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$3,000 - Alice Paul
"The women's party is made up of women of all races, creeds, and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women."
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$3,000 - Juno Frankie Pierce
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$3,000 - Hannah J. Price
Founded the Equal Suffrage League of Morristown, Tennessee.
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$3,000 - Sue Shelton White
“If you stand in your accepted place today, it is because some woman had to fight yesterday.”
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$1,500 - Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
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$1,500 - Olympia Brown
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$1,500 - Laura Cornelius Kellogg
"It is a cause of astonishment to us that you white women are only now, in this twentieth century, claiming what has been the Indian (Iroquois) woman's privilege as far back as history traces."
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$1,500 - Catherine Talty Kenny
President of Tennessee League of Women Voters in 1921.
“We are so proud of Tennessee and the wonderful victory here.”
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$1,500 - Mabel Pinghua Lee
Advocated for women’s voting rights even though discriminatory laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act barred her from voting.
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$1,500 - Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
Called the first public suffrage meeting in Tennessee.
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$1,500 - Lide Meriwether
Presided over the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, and by the end of the convention the formed the Tennessee Equal Rights Association
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$1,500 - Lucretia Mott
"Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege."
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$1,500 - Maria Adlina Isabel Emilia Otero-Warren
The first Latina to run for Congress (1922).
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$1,500 - Jeannette Rankin
“I may be the first woman in congress, but I won’t be the last.”
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$1,500 - Anna Howard Shaw
"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."
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$1,500 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The best protection any woman can have ... Courage."
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$1,500 - Lucy Stone
"We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law."
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$1,500 - Mary Church Terrell
“A White woman has only one handicap to overcome — that of sex. I have two — both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one — that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.”
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$1,500 - Sojourner Truth
“I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star”
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$1,500 - Harriet Tubman
"There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive".
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$1,500 - Harriet Upton
"Men may not be as good to us as they were before we got the vote, but they have a lot more respect for us."
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$1,500 - Ida B. Wells
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
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$1,500 - Mary Eliza Shaut White
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$1,500 - Charl Ormond Williams
“We can’t make one false step now. Not alone are our interests being at stake, but the interests of all American Women.”
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