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- In 1917, Dudley was appointed vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). She worked closely with President Carrie Chapman Catt in planning national suffrage strategy and worked to promote suffrage across the South.
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Anne Dallas Dudley (born Annie Willis Dallas; [1] November 13, 1876 – September 13, 1955) was an American activist in the women's suffrage movement. She was a national and state leader in the fight for women's suffrage who worked to secure the ratification of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee.
Oct 8, 2017 · Anne Dallas Dudley, a national and state leader in the woman suffrage movement, was the daughter of a prominent Nashville family. She received her education at Ward Seminary and attended Price's College in Nashville.
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Anne Dallas Dudley was a Tennessee suffragist and one of the most prominent leaders in the Southern suffrage movement. Born on November 13, 1876, into a prominent Nashville family, Dudley attended Ward Seminary High School and Price’s College.
Dudley became the first woman in Tennessee to make an open-air speech, given after she led a march of 2,000 women from downtown Nashville to Centennial Park — the first suffrage parade in the South, in May 1914.
Anne Dallas Dudley was beautiful, articulate, and privileged; a wife and the mother of two daughters, she enlisted in the crusade for women’s rights, laboring for nearly ten years in a hard fought campaign to achieve woman suffrage.
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In her role as an officer of NAWSA, she organized suffrage leagues and spoke throughout the United States. Anne involved both of her children in suffrage parades and circulated a photo of the three of them to demonstrate the respectability of supporting women’s suffrage.
As the group reached the end of the march from the Tennessee State Capitol to the steps of the Parthenon in Centennial Park in Nashville, a young mother named Anne Dallas Dudley stepped in front of the crowd. Who would have thought a woman known for dancing in the glittering ballrooms of Nashville would now be speaking in front of the people ...
