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Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm
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One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
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Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline

Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am
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How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener

Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm
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At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
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