
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Please enjoy this re-release of a past episode of For the Ages. New episodes will return Fall 2025.
The women’s suffrage movement was a hard-fought, decades-long campaign to extend that most essential of democratic rights to all Americans regardless of sex. That protracted struggle would rapidly come to a head in August of 1920 in Tennessee, the final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. Author and journalist Elaine Weiss talks with David Rubenstein about the struggles of the suffragists against misogynistic politics, members of the church, and even other women in that fateful month when everything hung in the balance.
Recorded on September 25, 2020
By The New York Historical4.6
355355 ratings
Please enjoy this re-release of a past episode of For the Ages. New episodes will return Fall 2025.
The women’s suffrage movement was a hard-fought, decades-long campaign to extend that most essential of democratic rights to all Americans regardless of sex. That protracted struggle would rapidly come to a head in August of 1920 in Tennessee, the final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. Author and journalist Elaine Weiss talks with David Rubenstein about the struggles of the suffragists against misogynistic politics, members of the church, and even other women in that fateful month when everything hung in the balance.
Recorded on September 25, 2020

3,651 Listeners

1,131 Listeners

1,558 Listeners

189 Listeners

1,132 Listeners

1,117 Listeners

748 Listeners

760 Listeners

4,028 Listeners

6,055 Listeners

179 Listeners

911 Listeners

198 Listeners

800 Listeners

1,539 Listeners