The Perfect 36

The authors bring to life the 72-year suffrage struggle 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 national centennial in 2020, the importance of learning about this 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.

Table of Contents1.Forewords by Tennessee Governor Don and Martha Sundquist, Shelby County, Tennessee Mayor Jim Rout, and Tennessee State Senator Steve Cohen
2. It Happened in Nashville
3. The Long Road to Nashville
4. Quote . . . Unquote
5. Pioneers, O Pioneers
6.The Debate Heats Up: The Suffs and the Antis
7. Women of Color, Women of Vision, Women of Courage
8.The Final Showdown, Tennessee, 1920
9. A Suffrage Sampler
10. Tennessee's Forgotten Heroes: The Gallant Few
11.Tennessee's Forgotten Heroines: A Suffrage Roll of Honor
12. Bibliography
13. Acknowledgments