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Photograph of Anne Dallas Dudley and her daugter Trevania Dallas Dudley, c. 1911-1913 (Tennessee State Museum collection, 2018.153.2) With the victory of partial suffrage for the women of Tennessee behind her, Dudley turned her focus to national suffrage in all elections.
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. In 1902, she married banker and insurance broker Guilford Dudley, and went on to have three children.
Anne Dallas Dudley. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. A national and state leader in the women’s suffrage movement, Anne Dallas was the daughter of a prominent Nashville family. She attended Ward Seminary High School and Price’s College in Nashville before marrying Guilford Dudley, who founded an insurance company in Nashville.
Apr 28, 2014 · Anne Dallas Dudley, daughter of Trevanion Dallas, a wealthy cotton mill owner, and great niece of George Dallas, who was James K. Polk's vice president, organized the Nashville parade; it was the ...
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. Unlike the pioneers of woman suffrage, Dudley embodied a new generation of feminist leaders that emerged in the ...
Anne Dallas Dudley was a mother and a society leader who was able to combat the stereotype of suffragists as man-hating radicals. Her financial resources and gift of diplomacy allowed her to travel and speak across the country in support of women’s right to vote. She helped organize and lead suffrage parades in 1914, 1915, and 1916 from near ...
Dec 21, 2018 · Anne Dallas Dudley could have been content with a comfortable life of social functions, but she chose to join the woman’s suffrage movement and founded the Nashville Equal Suffrage League in 1911. It should come as no surprise that she would be politically active. She was born in Nashville in 1876 to Ida and Trevanion Dallas, a textile mill ...
