2020 Series. Episode #1 of 4. The 19th Amendment, however, was the first federal piece of legislation that guaranteed women the right to vote everywhere in the US. At the time, it’s passage was not guaranteed - as we will discuss in this episode - and was the result of tireless, radical, and controversial work of suffragists. The women who led these movements had to mobilize a nation of other women to support an initiative that was quite radical in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - and after 1875, they had to convince women and men that women's suffrage was in everyone's best interest. Their tactics were sometimes militant, sometimes conservative, and often national in scale, and it's thanks to them that the women of the United States can walk into their polling places this November and cast their votes for our next President. 

Bibliography:

Adams, Katherine H. and Michael L. Keene (2008). Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Zahniser, J. D. and Amelia R. Fry (2014). Alice Paul: Claiming Power. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

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