Program date: October 16, 2020
How did American women build political power both before and after the 19th Amendment? Excluded from official civic leadership, they forged networks, spoke out, and advanced reform agendas with an unfailing determination and resolve. Historians Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martha Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020), consider the challenges both Black and white women faced in their pursuit of political power. The conversation is also informed by the award-winning work of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry, After the Vote: Feminist Politics in LaGuardia’s New York (2019). Moderated by Center for Women’s History director Valerie Paley.
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