Woman Suffrage Wins as Tennessee Ratifies

Woman Suffrage Wins as Tennessee Ratifies. . On August 18, 1920 women across the country won the right to vote when Tennessee lawmakers cast a tie-breaking vote to ratify the 19th Amendment. Achieving this victory took decades of women's suffrage supporter--writing, marching and lobbying for equal rights. , Juno Frankie Pierce, honored as the namesake for Frankie Pierce Park here at Capitol View, was an influential leader in Nashville's African American community and in the local women's suffrage movement. , Her work to improve conditions for African Americas and to fight for women's suffrage, helped shape our city. any of her social service efforts directly benefited the residents who lived in the Capitol View district formerly known as Hell's half Acre, during her lifetime. , A Nashville native, Pierce was involved in several organizations, including the Red Cross, YMCA and YWCA, and founded the Nashville Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and the Tennessee Vocations School for Colored Girls. In 1951, the Nashville Chapter of Links, Inc., a national organization for professional women of color, named Pierce, "Woman of the Year."