Tennessee 101: Tennessee Women in the Progressive Era
The Progressive Era (1896–1920) was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the US. Tennessee women played an important role in enacting change, especially in the fight for woman suffrage. Lecture series co-conveners Dr. Mary A. Evins and Dr. Minoa Uffelman have organized eighteen speakers for eleven online sessions. The first five webinars, scheduled to begin Tuesday, October, 19, 2021, will range in subject matter from the role of women’s missionary organizations and efforts to end lynching to the challenges of agricultural reform and the development of stronger educational institutions. The speakers will consider a wide variety of reform efforts that engaged progressive women in Tennessee before, during, and after the suffrage movement. Join the Tennessee Historical Society for this thorough examination of the Progressive Era, as demonstrated by the women who experienced it.
Dr. Mary A. Evins is Research Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University and coordinator of the American Democracy Project. Dr. Evins is the editor of Their Work in the Public Sphere: Tennessee’s New Women in the New South During the Progressive Era (UT Press 2013) and co-editor of Constructing Citizenship: Education, Associations, Service, Suffrage: Tennessee Public Women in the Progressive Era (UT Press 2022).
Dr. Minoa Uffelman is Professor of History at Austin Peay State University. She is a contributor to Their Work in the Public Sphere: Tennessee’s New Women in the New South During the Progressive Era (UT Press 2013) and the co-editor of Constructing Citizenship: Education, Associations, Service, Suffrage: Tennessee Public Women in the Progressive Era (UT Press 2022).
