Sculptor Alan LeQuire works on the statue of Febb and Harry Burn. (Photo courtesy of Knoxville News Sentinel)
Wanda Sobieski in her Gay Street office with a model of the Burn Memorial that will be placed in downtown Knoxville. Fundraising efforts are underway by the Suffrage Coalition for the memorial honoring state Rep. Harry Burn and his mother, Febb Burn. (Photo courtesy of Michael Patrick via Knoxville News Sentinel)Febb Burn was a tall woman; she stood 6 feet. Now, memorialized in bronze, she'll stand even taller in a downtown Knoxville statue that marks a turning point in women's suffrage.
Burn and her son, Rep. Harry Burn of Niota, are the figures of a statue to be unveiled June 9 at the corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street.
Harry Burn was a freshman representative in the Tennessee legislature in 1920 when he cast the deciding vote to approve the 19th Amendment. The amendment gave women the right to vote; Tennessee was the 36th and last state needed to make it law.
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