{"id":27657,"date":"2019-08-16T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27657"},"modified":"2019-08-16T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:36:29","slug":"celebrating-a-tennessee-triumph-new-monument-to-honor-clarksvilles-suffragists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/08\/16\/celebrating-a-tennessee-triumph-new-monument-to-honor-clarksvilles-suffragists\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a Tennessee Triumph: New monument to honor Clarksville\u2019s suffragists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On a July afternoon in 1914, more than 75 people crowded into a house on Madison Street for a meeting of the newly established Clarksville Equal Suffrage League.<\/p>\n

The women who joined the league that afternoon spent the next six years facing ridicule and threats of violence in the pursuit of their goal \u2013 earning women the right to vote.<\/p>\n

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A woman casts her first vote in this miniature replica of the statue. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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In that time, they helped Tennessee become the 36th<\/sup> state to ratify the amendment, providing suffragists with the three-fourths majority needed to amend constitution.<\/p>\n

On August 26th, 1920, the 19th<\/sup> Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

Next August marks the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of that historic event, and the upcoming centennial caused several women within the Austin Peay State University (APSU) community to look at commemorating the event. Ellen Kanervo, retired APSU professor and director of the Arts and Heritage Development Council, decided her hometown needed to be part of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Heritage Trail through Tennessee, which stops at monuments in Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis and Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, well if they\u2019re on the heritage trail, Montgomery County needs to be on the heritage trail,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to have a statue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kanervo and Brenda Harper, a member of Clarksville\u2019s 2020 Vision Committee for the anniversary, put together a group of 20 women leaders, and the group began soliciting artists for the project. The committee ultimately picked Phoenix- and Nashville-based artist Roy Butler\u2019s design, featuring a woman casting her first vote. The group nicknamed the statue Tennessee Triumph.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoy talked with us and made it unique to Clarksville,\u201d Kanervo said. \u201cHer hat is based on a hat worn by Pearl Darnell Perkins, who was a Clarksville suffragist. The dress was from an ad in the 1920s The Leaf-Chronicle. The purse was carried by a bride in Clarksville in 1920, and the boots were from the museum collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group is currently soliciting funds to pay for the 7-foot tall statue, which will be placed at the top of Public Square, across from F&M Bank. Once the project is complete, Kanervo hopes all women will be able to look at Tennessee Triumph and see themselves in the statue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is every woman,\u201d she said. \u201cWe asked Roy to please make it so anyone can see themselves in this monument, regardless of age or race. If you look at her, I think she manages to get that. I really like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Information on the project is available at http:\/\/www.artsandheritage.us\/tn-triumph-womens-suffrage-statue\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2020 Vision Statue Steering Committee<\/h3>\n

Rita Arancibia<\/p>\n

Barbara Brown Beeman<\/p>\n

Dee Boaz<\/p>\n

Dewey Browder<\/p>\n

Janice Crews<\/p>\n

Kay Drew<\/p>\n

Carolyn Ferrell<\/p>\n

Brenda Harper<\/p>\n

Ernie Hester<\/p>\n

Jill Hastings-Johnson<\/p>\n

Jody Iaacs<\/p>\n

Tracy Jepson<\/p>\n

Debby Johnson<\/p>\n

Angela Jones<\/p>\n

Terri Jordan<\/p>\n

[320right]Ellen Kanervo<\/p>\n

Peggy Knight<\/p>\n

Rosalind Kurita<\/p>\n

Gail Longton<\/p>\n

Kim McMillan<\/p>\n

Michelle Newell<\/p>\n

Katy Wall Olita<\/p>\n

Patsy Sharpe<\/p>\n

Martha Pile<\/p>\n

Kimberly Grant Silvus<\/p>\n

Khandra Smalley<\/p>\n

Phyllis Smith<\/p>\n

Ellen Taylor<\/p>\n

Minoa Uffelman<\/p>\n

Dixie Webb<\/p>\n

Eleanor Williams<\/p>\n

Heather Fleming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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