Anne Dallas Dudley

Born Annie Willis Dallas in 1876, she came to suffrage through temperance. In 1911 she helped found the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, whose May Day parades drew large crowds, and in 1914 she helped bring the National Suffrage Convention to the city. In August 1920 she co-led Tennessee's campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment with Catherine Talty Kenny and Abby Crawford Milton, and Tennessee became the thirty-sixth and deciding state to ratify. She later chaired the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities and died in 1955.

What the plaque says

Anne Dallas Dudley 1876-1955 Anne Dudley played a significant role in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the State of Tennessee. A native of Nashville, she served as president of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, 1911-15; president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, Incorporated, 1915-17; and as vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917. May 1, 1916, Anne Dudley walked from downtown Nashville to Centennial Park to demonstrate her support for the right of women to vote.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fisk University and Jubilee Hall — 1.6 mi
  The 1866 school for freed people whose Jubilee Singers paid for Jubilee Hall, a National Historic Landmark, and whose students helped start Nashville's sit-ins.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 1.9 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.
• Tennessee State Capitol — 1.9 mi
  William Strickland's Greek Revival capitol on Nashville's Capitol Hill, finished in 1859 and built from the bottom up with the labor of enslaved men.
• Fort Negley — 1.9 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.

More markers nearby

• Vanderbilt Memorial Gymnasium — steps away
• Vanderbilt University — 0.4 mi
• Governor's Mansion — 0.4 mi
• Roger Williams University — 0.7 mi