Club Meeting 65 - American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776–1965

In Club Meeting 65 the siblings talk to Dr. Shirley Samuels who is the Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department at Cornell University. She discussed the following three texts from “American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776–1965”:Letters from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March - 5 April 1776Ernestine L Rose's Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention - Oct. 15, 1851The Legal Conditions of Indian Women by Alice Cunningham Fletcher We also discuss invisible women, the effectiveness of petitions and speeches from the suffrage movement and what we can do today to be good activists. Listen till the end for recommendations like this book!