The Brian Lehrer Show: Women’s Hard-Fought Right to Vote

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Women holding banner with quote: "No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex." Susan B. Anthony, 1872 and 1894.

WNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show
March 14, 2018

Women’s Hard-Fought Right to Vote

Elaine Weiss, journalist and the author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking, 2018), talks about the fault lines exposed by the battle for the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote (not ratified until 1920), its intersection with race and class, and how it continues to reverberate.

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