From the first organized movement for women’s suffrage in the United States, it was many long years before the 19th Amendment officially granted American women the right to vote. In July 1848, the first group of suffragists, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met in Seneca Falls, New York, for a groundbreaking convention to discuss the fight for women’s right to vote.

Although all but one of the convention attendees would not see a final victory in their lifetime, they laid the groundwork. Seventy-two years later, on August 18, 1920, the state of Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote throughout the country.

But Tennessee would not have passed it without one very important person: Febb Ensminger Burn. She was the mother of Tennessee State Rep.........

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