Editor’s Note: The Tennessee Press Association will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2020. The following is one in a series of essays regarding historic events in Tennessee and the roles newspapers played in them courtesy of the TPA. Aug 18, 2019 at 8:00 AM
Tyler Boyd, a social studies teacher in Lenior City Schools, said he has written a book to “debunk the errors and apocryphal stories that have persisted over the years” about Harry T. Burn and his deciding vote on suffrage.
