Event: Parading through Suffrage History: A More Diverse View of the Fight for Voting Rights
3/20/24, 12 pm, Zoom
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Workshop Description: The story of the fight for woman suffrage often focuses on national suffrage leaders like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and is usually said to have been won after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But those facts are only part of the story. This lecture reveals the inspiring stories of Native American, African American, and Asian American women who not only challenged women's inequality and fought for the right to vote, but also rejected the racial prejudices of their age. They marched in parades, debated with national suffrage leaders, and met with politicians. They influenced the fight for woman suffrage, but also insisted that everyone in their communities deserved the vote. For some women, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 was a moment of celebration. But for others, it was not the end of their fight for equality.