Anne Dudley was a wealthy Nashville woman who lived when women weren’t allowed to vote. She decided to do something about it, and for much of her life she was one of the leaders in the movement to give women the right to vote (such women were known as suffragettes). Dudley organized one of the first suffragette parades in Nashville, which shocked many of her friends in Nashville society. Her efforts paid off in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36^th state to ratify the amendment to the U. S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote.