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bimonthly
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
22 episodes
since Nov. 30, 2023
episodic

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In this episode, we talk about the votes for women movement in California. Maria de Lopez was a Latina suffragist who brought a powerful bilingual voice to California’s suffrage drive, both speaking and writing in Spanish. John Hyde Braly was a prominent businessman and public education advocate w…

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In this episode, we talk about the final years leading up to the 19th Amendment passage in Washington D.C. and northern Virginia. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were leaders of the militant wing of the suffrage fight in the U.S. and officially founded the National Woman’s Party in 1916. Inez Milholland…
In this episode, we talk about the suffrage movement in Connecticut. ● Abby & Julia Smith – two sister farmers who refused to pay the unfair increase in their taxes declaring: no taxation without representation.● Mary Townsend Seymour was a Black suffragist who worked as a union organizer as we…
In this episode, we talk about the suffrage movement in Utah.   Some of the activists and events in the UT voting rights campaign: Hannah Kaaepa, a native Hawaiian living in a Latter-day Saints community in Utah, spoke powerfully for women’s suffrage alongside national leaders of the movement. Eli…
In this episode, we talk about the suffrage movement in Indiana.   Some of the activists and events in the IN voting rights campaign: Sojourner Truth traveled to Indiana several times to speak in a number of towns, while the state’s 1851 constitution barred Black persons from entering to reside or…
In this episode, three guests talk about the suffrage movement in Maryland.Some of the events and activists in the MD voting rights campaign: In 1648, Margaret Brent went before the Maryland Provincial Assembly and demanded a voice and a vote as a property owner in the Maryland colony. Augusta Chi…
In this episode, Andrea Malcomb discusses the suffrage battle in Colorado.We talk about the events and activists in the CO voting rights campaign: Mrs. Margaret Brown (Molly Brown) was a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage and contributed her skills, time and funding to the campaign. Elizabeth E…
In this episode, Cynthia Holmes and Elyssa Ford discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Missouri.  Virginia and Francis Minor were a St. Louis power couple determined to get votes for women and took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided citizenship did not mean the right …
In this episode, Robyn Young discusses the suffrage movement in Pennsylvania.We talk about the events and activists in the PA voting rights campaign: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prominent speaker for abolition, African American rights, suffrage and education. She also authored poetry, artic…
In this episode, Mary Melcher and Melanie Sturgeon discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Arizona.We talk about the events and activists in the AZ voting rights campaign: Frances Willard Munds, suffragist leader, who said that it made her “blood boil” when women were told to stay in their domesti…
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