Episode 8 – Suffrage and Women’s Rights

It’s March and Women’s History Month, so it’s a good time to think about women’s citizenship. We link citizenship strongly with voting, and it hasn’t been quite 100 years since women have had the right to vote in America.

References:

* Library of Congress – Elections, the American Way

* KQED Public TV – U.S. Voting Rights Timeline

* Time magazine – Suffragettes

* What’s Cooking America – Election Day Cake History

* Constitution Center – Centuries of Citizenship

* Wikipedia – Women’s Suffrage

* National Park Service – Women’s Rights National Park, Seneca Falls, NY

* Smithsonian Postal Museum – Mail-order Brides

* New Scientist – Origins of Sexism

* National Archives – Women and Naturalization

* Huffington Post – How Women Became Citizens

* Britannica – The Enlightenment

* Time magazine – How Christian Used the Bible to Justify Slavery

* JAMA – Reducing Maternal Mortality in the US

* University of Texas – 1848 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions – Seneca Falls

* Awesome Stories – Suffragists: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement

* National Women’s History Museum – 19th Amendment

* Wikipedia – Timeline of women’s suffrage

* ERA – History of the Equal Rights Amendment

* U.S. Constitution On-Line – Ratification of Constitutional Amendments

* Wikipedia – Equal Rights Amendment

* WHSV-TV – Bid to revived ERA in Virginia fails by 1 vote

* Daily Press – ERA appears dead in Virginia for 2019

* NY Times – What is the ERA and why are we talking about it now?