Two Tennesseans were vital to the passage of the 19th Amendment
Rep. Joseph Hanover and Charl Ormond Williams are featured on the Memphis Suffrage Monument, “Equality Trailblazers.”
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Rep. Joseph Hanover and Charl Ormond Williams are featured on the Memphis Suffrage Monument, “Equality Trailblazers.”
Comb through any of the latest art history or humanities textbooks, and you’re likely to find little if ...
The 42-foot-tall replica of the Greek goddess Athena was unveiled at Nashville's Parthenon on May 20, 1990.
The Memphis suffrage monument comes at the end of a more than decade-long fight to remove the names and statues of Confederate veterans from Memphis.
Athena, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. Representing the intellectual and civilized side of war and the virtues of justice and skill, Athena was superior to Ares, the god of war, who represented mere blood lust.