The most complete account of Tennessee's pivotal role in the passage of the 19th Amendment
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Yellin and Sherman bring to life the struggle of suffragists to earn women the right to vote which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature. The Perfect 36 gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to vote with a richly illustrated volume.
The authors bring to life the 72-year suffrage to earn women the right to vote which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature. The Perfect 36 gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to vote with a richly illustrated volume. The authors provide a great deal of writings of those who were involved in this important movement along with pictures and cartoons to give a vivid sense of what it was like to win enfranchisement. The Perfect 36 is an important resource for anyone interested in how women and men earned the right for women to fully participate in the democratic process of the United States. With the U.S. 250th anniversary approaching in 2026, the importance of learning about this 72-year nonviolent revolution cannot be overstated. The suffragists proved democracy works.
This book contains interviews that no other book about woman suffrage has. It is the complete history of what happened in Tennessee to secure ratification.
Available from Vote 70 Press
Paula Casey
Paula F. Casey is a dynamic speaker on voting rights, particularly the 72-year struggle for women to be included in the U.S. Constitution with the 19th Amendment's ratification. She produced a 13-minute DVD on woman suffrage, "Generations: American Women Win the Vote," and helped publish The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage book, ebook, and audiobook. She helped place suffragist public art across Tennessee. She was the driving force behind the podcast, "Her March to Democracy ... Stories Along the National Votes for Women Trail," which is available on all streaming platforms.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The Perfect 36 is perfect....One of the outstanding accomplishments of the volume is that, in addition to the voluminous record it presents of the suffrage movement and its historic antecedents, it also includes fair and reasonably complete accounts of the arguments made by the opponents of suffrage.
Jackson Baker,
The Memphis Flyer
