The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not win women the right to vote—despite repeated claims that it did. Just what, then, did the women’s suffrage amendment do? Historian Lisa Tetrault clarifies this history by positioning 1920 as the middle of a much larger story about the pursuit of voting rights, a struggle that is today unfinished and ongoing.
Lecture, Voting Rights, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
