The Coca-Cola business was booming and the family was able to relocate into a large house in the more well off West End area of Nashville.
During this time, Catherine began to develop an interest in politics that she claims grew out of her mothering responsibilities.
The parade route went from the state capitol building to Centennial Park, culminating with a rally at the Parthenon in Centennial Park[9] After these successes, later in 1914, Kenny was elected vice president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, Inc., two weeks before the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Nashville.
At the convention she joined with fellow suffragist, Abby Crawford Milton from Chattanooga to organize suffrage clubs in rural counties.
[10] In 1915, Kenny and Milton coordinated strategies between suffragists groups across the state as they co-chaired the campaign committee for the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and developed a plan to introduce an amendment to give women the right to vote in Tennessee, giving Kenny lobbying experience at the state capitol.
[12] This experience put Kenny in the position of leading the efforts to support the state's ratification of the 19th Amendment.
During this time, support for women in Tennessee fell and Kenny resigned the position and left politics out of frustration.
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