The right to vote was a highly contested and controversial amendment. Who should get it first? Black men or was universal suffrage possible during Reconstruction? If women, which ones? Could women work together across race and class to achieve suffrage? And, although female suffragists fought tooth and nail for the right, other women fought just as hard against it. Ultimately black men would receive the right to vote before women did and women entered the doldrums period, divided.

Trigger Warning: for discussion of rape and sexual assault.

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Host: Rachel Perez

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Haley Brook

Contributing Authors: Kelsie Brook Eckert, Dr. Barbara Tischler, Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Dr. DeAnna Beachley, Jacqui Nelson, Mary Bezbatchenko, Dr. Victoria Plutshack, and Nye Adamkowski.

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