Inspired by a booklet and button from a 1910 Woman Suffrage Party Convention, this episode explores how a series of meetings at Carnegie Hall contributed to the evolving national dialogue on women’s rights across the United States. It’s a chapter that illustrates Carnegie Hall’s legacy not only as a music hall, but also as a center for political discourse, activism, and social change. 

Guests include Marcia Chatelain, an expert on the Black suffragists’ movement and author of “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America”; Coline Jenkins, an expert on the suffragists and both the great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and great-granddaughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch; and Susan Ware, author of “Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote.” Members of Carnegie Hall’s Rose Archives and Museum team—including director Kathleen Sabogal, assistant director Rob Hudson, and founding archivist Gino Francesconi — are also featured. 

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