Blount Mansion will host Keeley Wade, who will speak on the suffrage movement in Tennessee. Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment in the summer of 1920 came as a shock to many; suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt confided that she did not believe there was even “a ghost of a chance” that Tennessee would become the 36th and final state needed to ratify the amendment, but it happened. Wade is a senior at the University of Tennessee, studying legal and social history.

The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center. Limited free parking is available onsite. A $5 donation is suggested at the door; cash and cards accepted. RSVP to [email protected].