She Votes!

100 years ago, the 19th amendment was ratified - but women's fight for the right to vote began long before then, and continues even today. In our final episode, Ellen and Lynn look at what happened after August 26th, 1920. Who voted, who didn't, who couldn't -- and why, this November, it's so important to cast your hard-fought ballot.

August 18, 1920. Nashville, Tennessee. Men and women on both sides of the suffrage fight have been battling for weeks over the final state needed to ratify the 19th amendment, employing every weapon in their arsenals, from door-knocking to smuggling whiskey. But it's one rookie lawmaker, and a letter from his mother, who ultimately turns the tide. Ellen and Lynn take us back.

Think that mastering the media machine is tough today? Hear what the suffragists endured at the hands of a nearly all-male press, turning ridicule into respect. Ellen and Lynn share their own experiences as women covering women, and go back to the years when suffragists created their own newspapers, took to the “soapboxes," and engineered the parades, spectacles and protests that caught the attention of the press -- and the country.

Throughout the battle for the ballot, suffragists often faced unlikely -- but powerful -- opponents: anti-suffragists, women who fought to keep other women from the polls. But this was hardly the only gender-based rift the suffrage movement faced. Lynn and Ellen explore what happens when sisterhood fails.

Heroes. They're never perfect, no matter how much we admire them. When Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found themselves on the opposite side of the 15th Amendment from their friend, Frederick Douglass, the ensuing debates shed light on anger, on biases and on the depth of relationships. How do we remember our heroes, flaws and all? Ellen and Lynn investigate.

"Click moments" have powered some of this country's biggest social upheavals. From second wave feminism's emergence during the Civil Rights movement to the creation of the suffrage movement amidst abolitionist organizing, Lynn and Ellen track down the ingredients for those moments of realization, when you finally see something that's been in front of you all along.

From the Cult of True Womanhood in the 1860s to Lynn and Ellen’s own experiences as young journalists in the 1970s, we’re investigating why we just can’t seem to escape the question: are women people?

Rochester, New York. 1872. Susan B. Anthony is arrested for the crime of "voting while female." What happens next -- an arrest, a trial, a verdict and a conviction -- sets the stage for the next half a century of battling for the ballot.

100 years ago, the 19th amendment was ratified. But the fight for the right to vote began long before then, and continues even today.

Introducing She Votes!, a new podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.

From Wonder Media Network, introducing a new podcast about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement.