Harry Burn

Harry Burn

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Deep Kindness, Beyond Broadway, Chessboxing

Episode: Deep Kindness, Beyond Broadway, Chessboxing

  • May 14, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 15:16 mins

One young Tennessee lawmaker cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment and give women the vote nationwide. Harry Burn had been leaning against voting for the amendment, but then, at the last minute, he got a letter from his mother and changed his mind. Harry Burn's great grand-nephew, Tyler Boyd, shares the story in his book “Tennessee Statesman Harry T. Burn.” (Originally aired August 18th, 2020, photo courtesy of the McClung Collection at the Knox County Public Library)