Customs House Museum celebrates Women’s Suffrage, Twenty Years of Cumberland Furniture Guild

Clarksville, TN – August has been a month of exciting change exhibit-wise at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center. Two new, highly anticipated exhibitions are now up for the public to visit: The Power of Women: Celebrating the Suffrage Movement and Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild.

This month the country will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, and Clarksville has plenty of history to share on the subject.

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Austin Peay State University 2020 Betty Joe Wallace Memorial Lecture to feature Expert on 19th Amendment

Clarksville, TN – At 4:00pm on March 26th, 2020, Paula F. Casey, a 19^th Amendment expert, will give the 2020 Betty Joe Wallace Memorial Lecture in rooms 303-305 of the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Morgan University Center. Casey particularly focuses on the 72-year struggle for women to be included in the U.S. Constitution.

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