3/2/21 - When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished,
Dr. Lisa Tetrault , Carnegie Mellon University
Join us on 3/2 from 12:30pm – 1:45pm for a presentation by Lisa Tetrault on the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Suffrage Movement, and state of modern voting rights.
When the Nineteenth Amendment passed in 1920, women 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.
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.
Zoom Link: https://calu.zoom.us/j/95835368643
Sponsored by American Democracy Project, Women’s Studies Program, the Women’s Center, and the President's Commission for the Status of Women