🏈 Titans player launches mayonnaise scent

🤢 Titans Player Launches Mayo-Scented Cologne

Titans quarterback Will Levis has just launched his new scent, a mayo-scented collaboration with Hellman's. Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, host Grace Fuisz, and executive producer Whitney Pastorek have some questions on today's City Cast Nashville podcast. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🎵 Beloved Music Store Looking for Buyers

Woman-owned Fanny’s House of Music has been an essential and welcoming space for Nashville’s musicians since 2009. Owners Pamela Cole and Leigh Maples plan to retire at the end of the year, and are looking for buyers who will keep the music store’s legacy intact. [Nashville Scene]

🚗 Lack of Language Access on Driver’s Test

A coalition of Tennessee-based immigrant rights groups has filed a federal complaint against the state for failing to provide access to the driver’s test for people who speak languages other than English. Federal guidance dictates that states provide translation or interpretation if at least 5% of the population has limited English proficiency. [WPLN]

📚 Main Library Branch Temporarily Closing

Beginning Monday, Nashville Public Library’s Main Branch will close for two months for necessary maintenance. In the meantime, 19 other branches will remain open, and Wishing Chair Productions will join the Bordeaux Branch’s story time. [NASHtoday]

On August 18th, 1920, Tennessee cast the final vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The final hurdle in the Women’s Suffrage Movement happened right here in Nashville, but it took bribery, threats, cajolery, exhaustive campaigning, keen organizing, and one mother’s guilt trip to make it happen.

🌼 Nashville Takes Center Stage in Women’s Suffragist Movement

While Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony became famous for their work as suffragists, by the time women finally won the right to vote in the U.S., neither was alive. Other women had taken center stage in the fight for women’s voting rights, like Carrie Chapman Catt, who helped bring the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to Congress, which would allow women the right to vote.

While the amendment was introduced to Congress repeatedly, it was only when Woodrow Wilson was president that both houses of Congress passed the amendment. But women could not vote yet: 36 states needed to ratify the amendment first.

Tennessee became that 36th state.

Catt and many suffragists in major women’s organizations had given up on the South, concentrating their efforts on other areas of the country. Tennessee women had not given up. They organized and managed to convince Tennessee Gov. Albert Roberts to call a special session to consider ratifying the amendment.

Union Station and the Hermitage Hotel became a battleground for women’s voting rights. Liquor lobbyists and factory owners descended on Nashville to convince legislators against letting women vote. Catt and suffragists across the state also gathered to persuade them otherwise.

“It was the War of the Roses,” explains Dr. Carole Bucy, local historian and Cumberland University’s first distinguished professor. “If you opposed women's suffrage, you wore a red flower on your lapel or on your dress. And if you supported women voting, you wore a yellow rose or a yellow flower.”