Camilla Can Vote: Celebrating the Centennial of Women`s Right to Vote, Ketchel Mary Morgan, Blackburn Marsha

Mary Morgan Blackburn Ketchel has penned a historical fiction book for children bringing to life the excitement of the day women won the right to vote She is joined by her mother, US Senator Marsha Blackburn, in writing Camilla Can Vote, an intriguing story of the suffrage movement through the eyes of a precocious child.

Camillas class trip to the history museum proved to be both instructive and enlightening when Camilla is transported back to August 18, 1920. Thats when women achieved the right to vote with the Yes vote from Harry T. Burn, a young legislator from East Tennessee whose mother encouraged him to do the right thing by breaking the 48-48 tie in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Until that day, women did not have the same rights as men.

...be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the rat in ratification.

Legislator Harry T. Burn received a letter from his mother that changed the course of history.