The scope of women’s political history is so vast that it can’t be covered by one podcast. This week Amended host Laura Free introduces a special episode from And Nothing Less, a seven-part series from the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and PRX. This episode is more than a story about women’s rights. It’s a story about civil rights. And women like Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell understood that the suffrage fight was as much about race as it was gender. Hosts Rosario Dawson and Retta speak with some great guests you’ll recognize from Amended—like Martha Jones and Lisa […]
Grappling with Suffragists’ Racism
HNY Board Member Dr. Laura Free will grapple with the complicated race- and gender-politics Elizabeth Cady Stanton engaged in in the 1860s, exploring how her race views informed her feminism. Dr. Free is Associate Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY and is the author of Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era. This presentation will be followed by a live Q&A at https://www.youtube.com/user/WORINHP
Winning the Vote
A divided movement brought about the Nineteenth Amendment. By Lisa Tetrault In 1869, a bold new idea was born. It would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Upending everything about the balance between state and federal power, this idea strove to remake American democracy. It proved so vexing that we are still sorting out its implications. “Woman’s Suffrage by the proposed Sixteenth Amendment is before the nation for consideration,” one newspaper heralded. Demanding their enfranchisement through a constitutional amendment, “women,” another column remarked, “strike out in a new path.” Women had been demanding the vote for some time, but this […]
