A pair of Chuckey-Doak Middle School students who won first place in the Tennessee History Day Junior Group Exhibit competition last month are seeking donations to help defray the cost of traveling to the National History Day competition next month.

Emilee Frazier and Katie Adams took first place in the Tennessee History Day Junior Group Exhibit category at the University of Memphis in early April with their exhibit "Women's Suffrage: The Conflict Within."

On Friday, May 9, Frazier told The Greeneville Sun that she and Adams are asking the public to send donations to Chuckey-Doak Elementary School at 120 Chuckey Doak Road, Afton, TN 37616, to help them pay their cost of traveling to the University of Maryland June 14-20 to take part in the national competition.

The Chuckey-Doak Middle School team was coached and accompanied to Memphis by eighth-grade history teacher LeAnn Myers.

"They really know their topic, and they're very articulate young ladies," Myers said of Frazier and Adams last month.

She noted that Frazier and Adams became interested in the struggle to win the right to vote for women after they viewed a documentary called "Iron Jawed Angels" about the struggle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by women to win the right to vote.