April 06, 2025 Reframe Your Inbox – Conversation with Elaine Weiss Adam Lowenstein ‘You’re not going to get anywhere unless the people are behind you.’ A conversation with Elaine Weiss, author of ‘Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil...
The New York Historical For the Ages: A History Podcast Episode 15: Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement Release: March 31, 2025 Featuring: Elaine Weiss, David M. Rubenstein (moderator) Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965,...
March 31, 2025 Gwinnett County Public Library – Author Talk with Elaine Weiss Jina Duvernay, Adult Services Manager and Robin Morris, moderator Join Gwinnett County Public Library and acclaimed author, Elaine Weiss, as she discusses her newest book, Spell Freedom, the...
KUDZU VINE Podcast interview with Elaine Weiss, author of Spell Freedom March 17, 2025 Author and journalist Elaine Weiss joined us to discuss her new book Spell Freedom. Listen to the Podcast...
March 16, 2025 The Joan Hamburg Show Interview with Elaine Weiss Joan Hamburg interviews Elaine Weiss, an acclaimed journalist and author, on Talk Radio 77 WABC. Weiss discusses her new book ‘Spell Freedom,’ which delves into the role of grassroots...
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD March 11, 2025 The acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the...
March 10, 2025 The SECRET Schools of the Civil Rights Movement | The Enemies List The fight for civil rights wasn’t just waged in the streets, it was built in classrooms led by unsung heroes. In this episode Rick speaks with author Elaine Weiss about her new book,...
March 09, 2025 Fox 24 News Now Interview with Elaine Weiss Host Leyla Gulen Award-winning author Elaine Weiss joins us via Skype to discuss her powerful new book, Spell Freedom. Watch the interview...
March 05, 2025 Elaine Weiss Shares Her Book “Spell Freedom” am Northwest It’s an inspiring story of ordinary citizens coming together to confront injustice and attempting to repair American democracy with their own hands. Journalist and author Elaine Weiss...
March 05, 2025 ‘Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools that Built the Civil Rights Movement’ Behind the headlines we remember from the Civil Rights Movement was an organized effort to teach African-Americans the literacy and civic skills they needed to...
March 05, 2025 How Underground Schools Across the South Built the Civil Rights Movement About This Episode Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) reacts to Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Fmr. Executive Editor of The Washington Post Marty Baron discusses the...
March 03, 2025 Frogmore Stew Podcast – Spell Freedom with Elaine Weiss Grace Cowan | The Alliance Coalition Elaine Weiss, an award-winning journalist and author, joins Frogmore Stew to discuss her latest book, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the...
Seize The Moment Podcast February 23, 2025 Elaine Weiss – How Education Became the Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement | STM Podcast #231 Leon & Alen On episode 231, we welcome Elaine Weiss to discuss the grassroots foundation of the civil rights...
February 22, 2025 Interview: Author Elaine Weiss on the Four Little-Known Activists Who Were the ‘Beating Heart’ of the Civil Rights Movement Weiss speaks about her new book “Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement,”...
C-SPAN AMERICAN HISTORY Q&A August 11, 2020 | 01:00 Elaine WeissJournalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, The Woman’s Hour, about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that guaranteed women...
The 1600 Sessions Presented by the White House Historical Association Women’s Suffrage and the White House July 23, 2020 | 01:01 | 44 This year marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the culmination of the suffragists’ fight to secure the right to vote for women....
”History with David Rubenstein” PBS/New York Historical Society Series The Elaine Weiss interview will appear in print form in Rubenstein’s forthcoming book, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream in Fall 2021. * * * About The Book American icons and historians...
She Votes! Podcast: Mother Knows Best August 26th, 2020 | 36:52 | S1:E7 EPISODE SUMMARY August 18, 1920. Nashville, Tennessee. Men and women on both sides of the suffrage fight have been battling for weeks over the final state needed to ratify the 19th amendment,...
Looking Back On The Fight For Women’s Suffrage A Century Later by Chris Citorik and Walter Wuthmann With a record number of women in Congress, and a record number of women running for president, many are calling this a new era for women in politics. But it...
Life as a Long Haul Trucker; then, Free Medical Care; Plus, Author Elaine Weiss In this epsidoe of American Voices: Life as a long haul trucker; then, a clinic of mostly Muslim doctors offers free medical care; and author Elaine Weiss on her favorite place in America....
Quartz at Work: Hen Pecked by Leah Fessler, July 3, 2018 To understand today’s anxieties about women’s progress in the workplace and the dismantling of traditional gender roles, we’d be smart to rewind the clocks to August 1920, the climax of American women’s...
Interview with Elaine Weiss by Mike Allen. Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. AXIOS, July 01, 2018 This weekend’s massive flash rallies to protest President Trump’s immigration policies – following the global women’s marches and the...
New York Post article by Mary Kaye Linge Even Annie Nathan Meyer, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ida Tarbell were opposed to women’s suffrage. They were some of the most accomplished American women of the early 20th century: a college founder, a journalism pioneer, a...
WYPR interview by TOM HALL & ROB SIVAK • MAR 20, 2018 It’s coming up on 100 years since the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified by legislatures in the requisite three-fourths of US states. The suffragist movement had...
Parade Magazine interview by Sam Coley, March 19, 2018 It’s been almost 100 years since women won the right to vote, and journalist Elaine Weiss says it’s something this generation of women has taken for granted. “Certainly the culture that is being protested needs to...
March 15, 2018 Elaine Weiss found the locus of action for her book deep in the library archives. I love this image because it is the stuff writing fantasies are made of: a writer, buried in the depths of newspapers that had been cataloged on microfilm. It was there...
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...
NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Elaine Weiss about her new book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, which looks at a decisive moment in the women’s suffrage movement. Heard on All Things Considered – March 11, 2018, 5:46 PM ET Read...
