Every August, The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville’s iconic and storied gathering place for over 100 years, celebrates the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The historic hotel played a pivotal role as the decision to grant women the right to vote nationwide came down to Tennessee delivering the 36th and final state victory. During the summer of 1920, The Hermitage Hotel, located across the street from the State Capitol, was the epicenter of an embattled mix of pro- and anti-suffragists, legislators and lobbyists in the weeks leading up to the ratification of the 19th amendment. With anti-ratification forces wearing red roses squaring off against yellow-rose-wearing pro-suffrage campaigners, the suffrage struggle at The Hermitage Hotel came to be known as “The

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