Event Detail
Back to Events
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
- Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2023
- Time: 1:00 pm
- Location: Virtual
Author Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina “Nina” Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
This program is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation.
