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SUMMARY:Febb Burn Banquet 2026
DESCRIPTION:2026 FEBB BURN BANQUET\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne Vote - One Letter\n\nWho is Febb Burn?  And why is Febb Burn a key player in the Suffrage Movement.\n\nThe woman whose letter gave 27 million women the right to vote \nHistory books often focus on the front lines\, but the "War of the Roses" was won by a mother’s pen. Febb Burn’s simple plea to her son\, Harry\, provided the tie-breaking vote needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. We invite you to sponsor a table for our Febb Burn Dinner as we celebrate the woman who ensured the "Perfect 36" state and secured our place at the ballot box. \n\n\nIn honor of the "Perfect 36\," each table will be dedicated to an individual suffragist\, celebrating the courageous women who paved the way to the 19th Amendment. Join us as we honor the legacy of Febb Burn and the heroes of the movement.  \n\n\n \nWomen's Suffrage Museum Events & Cultural Center will hold this dinner on August 18 to commemorate the exact day in 1920 when Tennessee became the "Perfect 36." As the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment\, Tennessee held the tie-breaking vote that forever changed the face of American democracy.   \nPlease Join us.  Limited Seating.\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nTony Award–Winning “Suffs” Producer Rachel Sussman to be Keynote Speaker at the 2026 ‘Febb Burn’ Dinner\n\n\n\nIn recognition of Women’s History Month\, the Women’s Suffrage Museum – Events & Cultural Center and the Suffrage Coalition are proud to announce Rachel Sussman\, Tony Award–winning creative producer and lead producer of the acclaimed Broadway musical Suffs\, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2026 Febb Burn Dinner.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsor a Suffragist Table\nWE ARE NOW COMPLETELY SOLD OUT. PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO JOIN THE WAITLIST.\n\n\n                \n                        \n                            Waitlist\n                             \n                        \n                        Name\n                            \n                            \n                                                    \n                                                    First\n                                                \n                            \n                            \n                                                    \n                                                    Last\n                                                \n                            \n                        Phone(Required)Email(Required)\n                            \n                        \n         \n\n \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n        \n                        \n                        \n \n  \n\n\n\n				\n				7\n				\n			\n\n\n\n\n\n$5\,000 - President's Table\nWanda Sobieski\, President of the Suffrage Coalition\, Inc. & Women's Suffrage Museum - Events & Cultural Center.  \nSOLDHost: Wanda Sobieski \n\n\n\n\n\n\n$3\,000 - Abby Crawford Milton\nThe last president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and the first president of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee. \nSOLD\nHOST: Knoxville Jewish Alliance \n\n\n$3\,000 - Juno Frankie Pierce\n“What will the Negro woman do with the vote? We are interested in the same moral uplift of the community in which we live as you are. We are asking only one thing – for a square deal.” \nSOLDHOST: Pat Taylor \n(Purchase Tickets Below) \n\n\n$3\,000 - Susan B. Anthony \n"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."  \nSOLDHOST: Linda Haney \n\n\n$3\,000 - Febb Burn\nWrote a letter to her son\, Tennessee Representative Harry T. Burn\, that caused him to switch his vote from "no" on suffrage to "Aye". \nSOLDHOST: Marsha Mitchell \n  \n\n\n$3\,000 - Harry T. Burn\n"I believe in full suffrage as a right. I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify." \nSOLDHOST: Tim Hill \n\n\n$3\,000 - Lucy Burns\n"It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.” \nSOLDHOST: Kim Bumpas\, Visit Knoxville \n\n\n$3\,000 - Mattie E. Coleman\nFirst African American Physician. Established a medical practice in Clarksville\, Tennessee. \nSOLDHOST: Barbara Kelly \n\n\n$3\,000 - Anne Dallas Dudley\n"This is a government of\, by and for the people\, and only the law denies that women are people!" \nSOLDHOST: Kelly Reynolds/Brian Pittman \n\n\n$3\,000 - Lizzie Crozier French\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Nancy Carmon\, Ossoli Circle \n\n\n$3\,000 -Matilda Joslyn Gage\n"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."  \nSOLDHOST: Karen Nunan (Samuel Doak Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution) \n\n\n$3\,000 - Joseph "Joe" Hanover\n “The entire world has cast its eyes on Tennessee. . . I am here voting for this amendment because it is a moral question.” \nSOLDHOST: Garrett Jernigan\, Graystan Real Estate \n(Purchase Tickets Below) \n\n\n$3\,000 - Helen Keller\n“We believe that it takes both men and women to run the world and to run it right.” \nSOLDHOST: Lynette Purdue \n\n\n$3\,000 - Inez Milholland\n"I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights."\nSOLDHOST: Barbara Kelly \n\n\n$3\,000 - Alice Paul\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Mary Kellogg Joslyn \n\n\n$3\,000 - Hannah J. Price\nFounded the Equal Suffrage League of Morristown\, Tennessee. \nSOLDHOST: Karen Nunan  \n\n\n$3\,000 - Sue Shelton White\n“If you stand in your accepted place today\, it is because some woman had to fight yesterday.” \nSOLDHOST: Ann Rowland \n\n\n\n\n$1\,500 - Carrie Chapman Catt\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n(Purchase Tickets Below) \n\n\n$1\,500 - Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch \n“All honor to women\, the first disenfranchised class in history who\, unaided by any political party\, won enfranchisement by its own effort…and achieved the victory without shedding a drop of human blood.” \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n(Purchase Tickets Below) \n\n\n$1.500 - Mrs. T. W. McTeer (Mary Wilson)\nThe first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in Tennessee. \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$3\,000 - Abigail Scott Duniway\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 - Catherine Talty Kenny\nPresident of Tennessee League of Women Voters in 1921. \n“We are so proud of Tennessee and the wonderful victory here.” \nSOLDHOST: Zach Ledbetter\, Tennessee Department of  Tourist Development \n\n\n$1\,500 - Mabel Pinghua Lee\nAdvocated for women’s voting rights even though discriminatory laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act barred her from voting. \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 - Elizabeth Avery Meriwether\nCalled the first public suffrage meeting in Tennessee. \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 - Lide Meriwether\nPresided over the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville\, and by the end of the convention the formed the Tennessee Equal Rights Association \nSOLDHOST: Mary Lou Kanipe \n\n\n$1\,500 - Alice Duer Miller\n"Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . ." \nSOLDHOST: Susie Whitner and Penelope M. Carlevato \n\n\n$1\,500 - Lucretia Mott\n"Any great change must expect opposition\, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege." \nSOLDHOST: Janet Drass Talbot  \n\n\n$1\,500 - Maria Adlina Isabel Emilia Nina Otero-Warren\n“I will take a stand\, and a firm one\, whenever necessary for I am with you now and always.” \nSOLDHOST: Madeline Rogero \n\n\n$1\,500 - Jeannette Rankin\n“I may be the first woman in congress\, but I won’t be the last.” \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 -Ada Cooke Settle\nTennessee Superintendent of Scientific Temperance Instruction. \nSOLDHOST: Linda Martinez/Great Grandaughter of Ada Settle \n\n\n$1\,500 - Anna Howard Shaw\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Kristin Shrader \n\n\n$1\,500 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton\n"The best protection any woman can have ... Courage." \nSOLDHOST: Carolyn Nevin \n\n\n$1\,500 - Lucy Stone\n"We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote\, the right to our own earnings\, equality before the law." \nSOLDHOST: Sylvia Woods \n\n\n$1\,500 - Mary Church Terrell\n“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.” \nSOLDHOST: Linda Martinez \n\n\n$1\,500 - Sojourner Truth\n“I’m not going to die\, I’m going home like a shooting star” \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 - Harriet Tubman\n"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". \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 - Harriet Upton\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Suffrage Coalition Supporters \n\n\n$1\,500 - Ida B. Wells\n“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” \nSOLDHOST: Erin Burns Freeman\, Designsensory \n\n\n$1\,500 - Charl Ormond Williams\n“We can’t make one false step now. Not alone are our interests being at stake\, but the interests of all American Women.” \nSOLDHOST: Michelle Parrott\, First Horizon \n\n\n$1\,500 - Laura Cornelius Kellogg\n"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." \nSOLDHOST: Mary Kellogg Joslyn \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets Below\n\n\n\n				\n				7
URL:https://womenssuffragemuseum.org/event/febb-burn-banquet-2026/
LOCATION:Bridgewater Event Center\, 205 Bridgewater Road\, Knoxville\, TN\, 37923\, United States
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Suffrage Coalition%2C Inc.":MAILTO:marketing@womenssuffragemuseum.org
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