POSTPONED: Ellen Carol DuBois presents Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
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Thursday, April 9th 2020
7:00 pm
Red Emma's
Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of
slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American
men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a
crushing disappointment. DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered
through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism. She
introduces new champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought
the fight into the 20th century, and she shows how African American women, led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, demanded voting rights even as white suffragists ignored them.Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of American democracy.