In sweltering Nashville in 1920, the divided Tennessee General assembly debates the amendment that would give women the right to vote. Emotions run high. Suffragist leaders in town for a rally include Sue Shelton White of Jackson and Nashville’s own Anne Dallas Dudley. Suffragists distribute yellow roses to supporters; anti-suffragists hand out red roses. Local African American suffragist J. Frankie Pierce is eager to speak. So begins Tennessee Women for the Vote, a one-act play to be staged at 3 p.m. July 26 in the Washington Theatre, Patterson Park.

The play is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, written by B. Ayne Cantrell, Professor Emerita, MTSU, and directed by Tom Harris, founder of the Murfreesboro Ensemble Theatre.  The presentation will be free and open to the public.