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Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: From The Vote To Gender Equality: The Nineteenth Amendment: The Fourth Reconstruction Amendment?, Kimberly A. Hamlin Phd
Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: From The Vote To Gender Equality: The Nineteenth Amendment: The Fourth Reconstruction Amendment?, Kimberly A. Hamlin Phd
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This essay argues that the Nineteenth Amendment can best be understood in terms of the Fifteenth Amendment and perhaps even as the fourth Reconstruction Amendment. It is now well understood, at least among historians, that the Nineteenth Amendment did not enfranchise black women in the South, nor other women of color, but the specifics of how and why that came to be the case are less well known. After the passage of woman suffrage in New York in 1917, Congressional opponents of women voting narrowed in on the Nineteenth Amendment’s relationship to the Fifteenth as the main source of contention. …
Symposium: 19th Amendment At 100: "We Must Forget Every Difference And Unite In A Common Cause - Votes For Women": Lessons From The Woman Suffrage Movement (Or, Before The Notorius Rbg, There Were The Notorious Rbgs), Gwen Jordan
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The centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment induces a renewed assessment of the history of the woman’s suffrage movement and its legacy. This article focuses on the transnational activism of women professionals to secure, for all women, full social, civil, political, and legal rights. It examines the work of Rosa Goodrich Boido, a late nineteenth century doctor, and her daughter, Rosalind Goodrich Bates, an early twentieth century lawyer, as they generationally crossed national borders and fought for women’s rights and dignity in the US and around the world. Their stories document their understanding of suffrage as an incremental step toward women’s …
Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: Citizen Soldiers And The Foundational Fusion Of Masculinity, Citizenship, And Military Service, Jamie R. Abrams, Nickole Durbin
Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: Citizen Soldiers And The Foundational Fusion Of Masculinity, Citizenship, And Military Service, Jamie R. Abrams, Nickole Durbin
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The Akron Law School’s conference on the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment offered the chance to fight the eulogization of the Nineteenth Amendment and explore its modern relevance. This paper concludes that the Nineteenth Amendment cannot be understood without connecting it to broader conceptions of citizenship, masculinities, and military service, thus revealing its ongoing relevance to military inclusion and integration.
Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: From The Vote To Gender Equality: Woman Suffrage: The Afterstory, Ellen Carol Dubois
Symposium: The 19th Amendment At 100: From The Vote To Gender Equality: Woman Suffrage: The Afterstory, Ellen Carol Dubois
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The history of the US woman suffrage movement did not end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. While numbers slowly grew of eligible women voting, veterans of the suffrage movement organized to win elective office and use the power of women's votes to gain important legislative gains. This article follows both voting rates and women winning public office up to the revival of feminism in the 1960s.