The Long Island History Project

Episode 36: The Long Island Suffrage Playbook


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Women in most states could still not vote at the turn of the last century. The suffrage movement was stalled and icons such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were dead. So what turned things around? How did the movement revitalize itself to the point that, by 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed and women's suffrage was the law of the land? Part of the answer lies with two women from Long Island.

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