1856 – 1940
Harriet Stanton blatch stood on the shoulders of her suffragist movement leader mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Working through interviews of her mother and other suffragists of her era, Blatch published her narrative history of the women’s rights movement, which reached broad circulation and contributed to the ultimate success of the 19th amendment. Although she intentionally excluded diverse narratives from her published history, Blatch reinvigorated the suffrage movement, primarily by involving women working outside the home during World War 1, trade unions, and African American women who had been excluded from central leadership and narratives of the first wave of the women’s suffrage movement.
This program is structured as a meeting of a local women’s suffrage society, where you have invited Blatch to speak, she will read from excerpts of various advocacy and historical publications, and then invite program participants to engage in a discussion of their on-the-ground work in favor of the women’s rights to vote.
Program themes: women’s history, this suffrage movement, racism in American social movements, World War I and female labor.
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