Evette Dionne, editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, discusses her Coretta Scott King Author Honor...
Keyword: Women’s Suffrage
Author Interview, Voting Rights, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Who Gets to Vote? A Conversation between Martha Jones and Leslie Harris
On Wednesday, April 21, at 6 p.m., the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities hosted Leslie Harris in conversation with Martha Jones on her groundbreaking book Vanguard:...
This event was hosted by Union County College. Funded through the “Why it Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation” initiative, the Democracy Conversation Project...
Author Interview, Voting Rights, Humanities Nebraska
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All
Professor Jennifer Harbour interviews Martha S. Jones about “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All,” selected by...
Panel Discussion, Voting Rights, Nevada Humanities
Why It Matters: The Past, Present, and Future of Voting
Nevada was granted statehood, in part, to cast a deciding vote for the Union during the upheaval of the Civil War. What about the rest of the history of voting in the...
Indigenous Rights, Panel Discussion, South Dakota Humanities Council
Telling The Untold Story of the Proud Influence of Indigenous Women on Women’s Rights
“Without a Whisper / Konnon:Kwe” Discussion with Professor Sally Roesch Wagner, Mohawk Bear Clan Mother Louise Herne, and Filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox.
Meet Omaha-born Doris Stevens, a largely forgotten suffragist who worked with Alice Paul and other well-known members of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement...
Lecture, Voting Rights, Humanities Nebraska
Clues to Clara Bewick Colby: The Rediscovery of Local Women’s History
The story of Clara Bewick Colby, a suffragist who lived in Beatrice, Nebraska.
“Join host Tonya Scott-Williams and project poet (and Alabama Poet Laureate) Ashley M. Jones for an interview with Dr. Tara White, history instructor at Wallace...
Lecture, Voting Rights, Humanities Nebraska
A Century of Women’s Suffrage: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
Dr. Dianne Bystrom explains the grassroots efforts of American women to win the vote.
Kentucky Humanities · Vote Worthy Podcast 2 – Women and Minorities in 2020 Politics and Public Service Host, Tom Martin, welcomes Joshua A. Douglas, Distinguished...
Lecture, Voting Rights, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished
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...
This considerable, expanded issue of our award-winning magazine is one programming component of a larger national initiative entitled Democracy and the Informed Citizen...