When women won passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, they did not win the right to vote—despite repeated claims that they did. Just what, then, did the woman suffrage amendment do? Clarifying this history, this talk also positions 1920 as the middle of a much larger story about the pursuit of voting rights, a struggle that is today unfinished and ongoing.
Join us on Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. at the Heritage and Cultural Center for a presentation on this important topic.
About the Speaker
Lisa Tetrault is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, a leading suffrage scholar, and author of the prize-winning book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898. A frequent commentator on the recently concluded suffrage centennial, Tetrault also served as an historical consultant for Nineteenth Amendment projects launched by the National Constitution, the Schlesinger Library, and Ancestry.com, as well as the documentary, “The Vote” (PBS’s American Experience). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New York Magazine, USA Today, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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