Look inside the luxury Nashville hotel where suffragists fought for women's right to vote 100 years ago
Interior of a present-day hotel room.... and senators and representatives would gather at the hotel's restaurant and bar to discuss matters of the day.Source:
Together with journalists, suffragists sat in the Beaux-Arts lobby waiting for run-ins with politicians.In between encounters, they mapped out their strategy over tea and in hotel rooms.The suffragists didn't just have to contend with politicians, however. Anti-suffragists also set up their campaign headquarters at the hotel.
Anti-suffrage activists pose with a Confederate veteran outside the entrance to their movement's headquarters at The Hermitage Hotel in August 1920.
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