Trump designates hotel where last fight over 19th Amendment played out as national historic landmark

The Hermitage Hotel, which was front and center in the women's suffrage movement in the 1920s, has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Trump administration.

The hotel, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, was used as a headquarters by suffragists to secure Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2020/07/hermitage-hotel-tennessee-designated-national-historic-landmark

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