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In this episode, we talk about the final years leading up to the 19th Amendment passage in Washington D.C. and northern Virginia.Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were leaders of the militant wing of the suffrage fight in the U.S. and officially founded the National Woman’s Party in 1916.Inez Milholland was a suffragist and attorney who in 1916 campaigned in the western states with equal suffrage to ask women voters to support the disenfranchised women in the East. She collapsed during a speech in California and died one month later becoming a martyr for the movement.Mary Church Terrell was a prominent suffragist and a Silent Sentinel, who was the first President of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). She spoke regularly at NAWSA conventions as well as international suffrage conferences.Phyllis Terrell Langston (Mary’s daughter) was also a Silent Sentinel who carried on her mother’s legacy in women’s suffrage and civil rights advocacy.About our Guest:Pat Wirth served as the CEO of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association until 2021, when its mission to build the National Memorial in Lorton, Virginia, was completed. She now serves as the Coordinator for Docent-led tours of the memorial.Links to People, Places, Publications:Washington D.C. & the 19th Amendment (here)Alice Paul Biographical Sketch (here)Lucy Burns Biographical Sketch (here)Inez Milholland Biographical Sketch (here)National Woman’s Party overview (here)Mary Church Terrell Biographical Sketch (here)Phyllis Terrell Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Mary Church Terrell historical marker (here)Doris Stevens Biographical Sketch (here) Visit the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial (here)Alva Belmont Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Belmont-Paul Equality National Monument (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, we talk about the suffrage movement in Connecticut. ● Abby & Julia Smith – two sister farmers who refused to pay the unfair increase in their taxes declaring: no taxation without representation.● Mary Townsend Seymour was a Black suffragist who worked as a union organizer as well as creating inter-racial coalitions to address issues including working conditions, segregation, education, and housing.● Elsie Vervane worked in a munitions factory during WWI to support her family and was active in the union as well as promoting women’s suffrage.● Helena, Elsie and Clara Hill were three sisters who worked in the suffrage movement with Helena and Elsie picketing the White House and serving jail time.● Emmeline Pankhurst visited Connecticut in 1913 and gave her most famous speech, “Freedom or Death” in Hartford’s Parson’s Theater.About our Guest:Joanie DiMartino has spent decades in the museum profession, specializing in the history of women in social justice movements. She has a MA in public history from Rutgers University. She serves as the CT Coordinator for the National Votes for Women Trail through the National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites, which she represented on the Connecticut Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. She now serves as co-President of the NCWHS.Links to People, Places, Publications:Connecticut & the 19th Amendment (here)Abby & Julia Smith story (here)Mary Townsend Seymour Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Mary Townsend Seymour marker (here)Elsie Vervane Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Elsie Vervane historical marker (here)Katherine Houghton Hepburn Biographical Sketch (here)Emmeline Pankhurst Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Katherine Houghton Hepburn–Emmeline Pankhurst marker (here)Elsie Hill Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Hill Sisters’ marker (here)Visit the Katherine Luddington marker (here)Visit the Emily Pierson marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, we talk about the suffrage movement in Utah.  Some of the activists and events in the UT voting rights campaign:Hannah Kaaepa, a native Hawaiian living in a Latter-day Saints community in Utah, spoke powerfully for women’s suffrage alongside national leaders of the movement.Elizabeth Taylor was a suffragist, journalist, and equal rights leader, and in 1904, she established The Western Federation of Colored Women. Emma McVicker was a bridge builder in the suffrage movement and actively worked to put women forward as candidates for public office.Lucy Rice Clark was chosen as the first female delegate to attend and vote at the Republican National Convention in 1908 and declared, “It means so much for the cause of woman suffrage!”In 1911, a slate of women candidates was entered into a town council election as a joke by some men. The five women won in a surprising result and proceeded to improve the town in multiple ways over their two-year term.About our Guest:Katherine Kitterman is the Executive Director of Better Days, a nonprofit centered on Utah women’s history, and manages the Women's History Initiative at the Utah Historical Society. She is a public historian with a specialty in Utah women's history of suffrage and advocacy. She co-authored two books about Utah women’s work for suffrage: Champions of Change: 25 Women Who Made History, and Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah.Links to People, Places, Publications:Utah & the 19th Amendment (here)The Story of Utah Women’s Suffrage (here)Visit the “A Path Forward” memorial (here)Emma McVicker Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Emma McVicker marker (here)Elizabeth Taylor Biographical Sketch (here)See the Trinity AME historic church  (here)Lucy Rice Clark Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Lucy Rice Clark historical marker (here)Hannah Kaaepa Biographical Sketch (here) Visit the Hannah Kaaepa marker (here)The 1911 Kanab Town Council story (here)Visit the Kanab Town Council marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, we talk about the suffrage movement in Indiana.  Some of the activists and events in the IN voting rights campaign:Sojourner Truth traveled to Indiana several times to speak in a number of towns, while the state’s 1851 constitution barred Black persons from entering to reside or settle.Helen Gougar mobilized scores of women to show up at the polls around the state in 1894, demanding the right to vote, and she sued her county for denying her suffrage, ultimately testifying before the Indiana Supreme Court.Madam C.J. Walker–pioneering Black business owner of a hair and beauty empire–hosted meetings of the African American Indiana Equal Suffrage Association in her Indianapolis home and donated generously to the movement.Ida Usted Harper was a Hall-of-Fame journalist and worked with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the history of women’s suffrage project. About our Guest:Melissa Gentry is the Supervisor of the Paul W. Stout Map Collection at Ball State University Libraries. She was a featured speaker for the Indiana Suffrage Centennial and created a set of maps about the history of Indiana women battling for the ballot. She also serves as the coordinator of the Muncie and Delaware County Notable Women local history project, which won the Outstanding Collaborative Project Award from the Indiana Historical Society in 2023.Links to People, Places, Publications:Indiana & the 19th Amendment (here)Visit the Sojourner Truth statue (here)Naomi Anderson Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Naomi Anderson memorial sculpture  (here)Helen Gougar Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Helen Gougar historical marker (here)Visit the Marie Stuart Edwards statue (here)Ida Usted Harper Biographical Sketch (here)Madam C.J. Walker Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Madam Walker Legacy Center (here)Carrie Barnes Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the May Wright Sewall historical marker (here)Visit the Grace Julian Clark historical marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, three guests talk about the suffrage movement in Maryland.Some of the events and activists in the MD voting rights campaign:In 1648, Margaret Brent went before the Maryland Provincial Assembly and demanded a voice and a vote as a property owner in the Maryland colony.Augusta Chissell and Margaret Hawkins were African American women who held many suffrage meetings in their homes in Baltimore.Estelle Hall Young was a Black suffragist who created the Baltimore Women's Colored Women's Suffrage Club in 1915.Gladys Greiner was a competitive golfer whose militant suffrage activity–such as picketing the White House and going to prison–disappointed her prominent parents, who wrote an op-ed distancing themselves from her actions.Corrine Robert Redgrave was a professional actor who used the stage to put on suffrage plays and spread the suffrage message.Elizabeth Forbes was a suffrage leader willing to advocate for confrontational actions through the Just Government League.About our Guests:Kate Campbell Stevenson is the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center’s Board Chair. She is an activist for women’s and girls’ rights and has been honored by the Maryland State Education Association with the Dorothy Lloyd Women’s Rights Award. Dr. Ida B. Jones is the Associate Director of Special Collections and University Archivist at Morgan State University in Baltimore and co-president of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. She received her PhD in American History from Howard University.Dr. Amy Rosenkrans received her PhD from Notre Dame of Maryland University. She has been awarded the Joseph L. Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore History by the Baltimore City Historical Society. She is the Secretary of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and served as one of the researchers for the Suffrage Bicentennial Project.  Links to People, Places, Publications:Maryland & the 19th Amendment (here)Augusta Chissell Biographical Sketch (here)Margaret Hawkins Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Augusta Chissell and Margaret Hawkins historical marker (here)Estelle Hall Young Biographical Sketch (here)Gladys Greiner Biographical Sketch (here) Elizabeth Forbes Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Elizabeth Forbes historical marker (here)Corrine Robert Redgrave Biographical Sketch (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Andrea Malcomb discusses the suffrage battle in Colorado.We talk about the events and activists in the CO voting rights campaign:Mrs. Margaret Brown (Molly Brown) was a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage and contributed her skills, time and funding to the campaign.Elizabeth Ensley and Ida Clark DePriest were African American activists who worked for women’s suffrage as part of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association as well as many organizations advocating for their communities. Dr. Caroline Spencer, an ardent suffragist, went to the summit of Pike’s Peak in 1916 to plant a banner for the National Women’s Party.Agapito Vigil, a Mexican American stock raiser and farmer, was a delegate to the Colorado Constitutional Convention in 1875 where he voted to include women’s suffrage in the state constitution.The Every Word We Utter statue in Loveland features national suffragists including Susan B. Anthony who campaigned in Colorado.About our Guest:   Andrea Malcomb is Vice President of the organization Historic Denver and the Director of the Molly Brown House Museum. She is focused on elevating the house museum as a nationally recognized women’s history site while also expanding the museum’s education partnerships across Denver. Under her leadership, the museum has elevated its public history impact through programs and interpretation that superimpose feminized narratives of historical events onto contemporary place-based activities, prompting audiences to explore a new, woman-centered dynamic between past and present. She currently sits on the board of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, Museum of Denver, and Irish Network CO.Links to People, Places, Publications:Colorado & the 19th Amendment (here)Molly Brown Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Molly Brown House Museum and historical marker (here)Minnie Reynolds Biographical Sketch (here)Elizabeth Ensley Biographical Sketch (here) Ida Clark DePriest Biographical Sketch (here)Dr. Caroline Spencer Biographical Sketch (here)Agapito Vigil Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Every Word We Utter statue here)Visit the Olney and Mills historical marker (here)Visit the Salida historical marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Cynthia Holmes and Elyssa Ford discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Missouri. Virginia and Francis Minor were a St. Louis power couple determined to get votes for women and took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided citizenship did not mean the right to vote. Anna Holland Jones was an African American activist who in August 1915 wrote an article entitled, “Woman Suffrage and Social Reform” in which she asked the question, why should a woman “not have the legal means – the ballot – to widen and deepen her work?”Alma Nash and the Missouri Women’s Military Band energetically supported women’s suffrage and travelled to Washington D.C. for the 1913 parade and were moved to the lead to open the way for marchers.  The Golden Lane Parade in 1916 saw 7,000 women lining the streets of St. Louis during the Democratic National Convention and silently staring-down the delegates as they walked from their hotels to the convention to illustrate how women had been silenced by the continued denial of the vote. About our Guests   Cynthia Holmes is an attorney in St. Louis serving families and small businesses and is the State Coordinator for the National Votes for Women Trail.    Dr. Elyssa Ford is a professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University. She is a scholar of gender and sexuality with a focus on the West. Her first book Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo looks at race- and group-specific rodeos across the US, and her second book Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo traces the history of gay rodeo in the United States as a site of queer activism and contestation. As a public historian, she is committed to local history and has written extensively on the Midwest and Northwest Missouri, including an article on women’s suffrage for the National Park Service.Links to People, Places, PublicationsMissouri & the 19th Amendment (here)Virgina Minor Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Minor historical marker (here)Anna Holland Jones Biographical Sketch (here) Visit the Jones historical marker (here)Alma Nash Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Nash historical marker (here)The Golden Lane March of 1916 (here)Visit Golden Lane historical marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Robyn Young discusses the suffrage movement in Pennsylvania.We talk about the events and activists in the PA voting rights campaign:Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prominent speaker for abolition, African American rights, suffrage and education. She also authored poetry, articles, and books. Hannah Patterson helped organize the 1915 "Suffrage Day" at the Philadelphia ball park for a game between the Phillies and the NY Giants and threw out the first pitch.The 1915 Justice Bell Tour took a replica of the Liberty Bell for a 5,000-mile journey around the state during which tens of thousands came to see it. The bell’s clapper was symbolically chained down and would only ring out when women got the vote.Anna Howard Shaw was one of the suffrage movement’s leaders and greatest orators with an estimated 10,000 speeches given around the country over decades. Emma Writt and her sisters Pauline and Mary were African American suffrage leaders in western Pennsylvania when they helped plan and participate in an integrated women’s suffrage march in Pittsburgh in 1914 – the first march in that city.About our Guest:Robyn Young is an independent scholar and women's historian dedicated to sharing women's history with the general public. She is known as the “Marker Lady” as she has had four historical markers approved for the National Votes for Women Trail. She has been a board for NCWHS since 2018 and currently serves as its secretary. Links to People, Places, Publications:Pennsylvania & the 19th Amendment (here)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the F.E.W. Harper statue (here)Hannah Patterson Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the 1915 Justice Bell Tour marker (here)Anna Howard Shaw Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Anna Howard Shaw marker (here)Emma Writt Richards Biographical video (here)Pittsburgh’s first women’s suffrage march (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Mary Melcher and Melanie Sturgeon discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Arizona.We talk about the events and activists in the AZ voting rights campaign:Frances Willard Munds, suffragist leader, who said that it made her “blood boil” when women were told to stay in their domestic sphere and not get involved with voting.Sallie Davis Hayden passed on her convictions for women’s suffrage to her son, Carl Hayden, who voted for the 19th amendment as a U.S. congressman.Mary Kane and Amalia Valenzuela were women of Mexican descent who were early women voters at the schoolhouse in the town of Patagonia.Laura G. Cannon travelled around Arizona and spoke nearly every evening in a different town – often to crowds of working men who applauded her and “donated generously” to the suffrage cause.In 1912, Arizona women won the right to vote after 30 years of rejection after rejection by politicians.About our Guests:     Mary Melcher is a historian who specialized in western women’s history, and the twentieth century U.S. She has conducted numerous women’s public history projects in Arizona and recently served on the Statue Committee of the Arizona Women’s History Alliance which installed the statue of Frances Willard Munds in the memorial park next to the Arizona state capitol.    Melanie Sturgeon is the co-founder and Chair of the Arizona Women’s History Alliance and the Chair of the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame. She served as the State Archivist of the Arizona State Archives for 16 years and has always been passionate about women’s history. Links to People, Places, Publications:Arizona & the 19th Amendment (here)Arizona Women’s Suffrage Timeline (here)Frances Willard Munds Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Frances Willard Munds statue (here)Sallie Davis Hayden Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Sallie Davis Hayden marker (here)Visit the Patagonia marker where Mary Kane and Amalia Valenzuela voted (here)Laura G. Cannon Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Laura G. Cannon marker (here)Anna Howard Shaw Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the 1912 Anna Shaw speech marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Anne Gass, independent historian and author, discusses the suffrage struggle at sites in Maine.We talk about the events and activists in the ME voting rights campaign:Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a suffrage leader who traveled to D.C. to picket at the White House.Mabel Derricks, Edith Johnson, and Blanche Dymond–members of the Black community in Bangor–signed a petition in 1917 advocating for women’s suffrage.Lucy Nicolar Poolaw of the Penobscot nation combined her musical career with activism for the rights for her community and was finally able to vote in 1967.Camille Lessard Bissonette who immigrated from Quebec to work in the Lewiston mills, became a journalist for the local French-Canadian newspaper and advocated for women’s suffrage.Augusta Hunt fought for women’s suffrage as well as other important rights including women’s rights for custody of their children. About our Guest:     Anne Gass is an independent historian and the author of the non-fiction book Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, published in 2014. Anne is Whitehouse’s great-granddaughter. Her most recent book is We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip, a historical novel based on the true story of an epic cross-country road trip that took place in 1915. In 2015, a century later, Anne spent two months retracing the original route.  Anne describes herself as a "women's rights history activist" and speaks regularly on suffrage and women’s rights history. She recently led an effort to install seven roadside markers across Maine honoring women (and one man!) who fought for women’s voting rights. She serves as Chair of Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women. People, Places, Publications:Maine & the 19th Amendment (here)Maine Suffrage Trail (here)Francis Brooks Whitehouse Biographical Sketch (here)Francis Brooks Whitehouse marker (here)Black Matriarchs of Bangor Biographical Sketch and marker (here)Lucy Nicolar Poolaw Biographical Sketch and marker (here)Camille Lessard Bissonette Biographical Sketch (here)Camille Lessard Bissonette marker (here)Augusta Hunt Biographical Sketch (here)Augusta Hunt marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Paula Casey discusses the stories of the suffrage struggle in Tennessee.We talk about the activists in the TN campaign:Juno Frankie Pierce and Dr. Mattie Coleman aided 2,000 African American women to vote in Nashville after the state partial suffrage law passed in 1919.Joseph Hanover–a Polish Jewish immigrant–was key to organizing the final dramatic victory in the legislature. Lide Smith Meriwether wrote an 1895 petition demanding the women's vote and status as independent citizens. Anne Dallas Dudley organized suffrage leagues in the state as well as the largest suffrage parade in Nashville in 1916.The “Suffrage Day” baseball game in 1916 in Nashville hosted the suffragist governor and featured players with yellow sashes around their waists. ABOUT OUR GUESTPaula Casey has spent more than 30 years educating the public about Tennessee's role in ratifying the 19th Amendment. She has helped place suffragist public art across Tennessee and published the book, The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. She co-founded the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail.Links to People, Places, PublicationsTennessee and the 19th Amendment (here)TN Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail (here)Lide Smith Meriwether Biosketch (here)Visit the Equality Trailblazers monument (here)Joseph Hanover Biosketch (here)Visit the Joseph Hanover marker (here)Lizzie Crozier French Biosketch (here)Visit the Lizzie Crozier French marker in Knoxville (here)Juno Frankie Pierce Biosketch (here)Dr. Mattie Coleman Biosketch (here)Visit the Dr. Mattie Coleman marker in Nashville (here)Anne Dallas Dudley Biosketch (here)Visit the TN Woman Suffrage Monument (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode on Oregon, Janice Dilg, consulting historian and principal of HistoryBuilt, talks about the struggle for votes for women on the NVWT. We talk about the events and fighters in OR suffrage campaign:Dr. Pesie Chan, a Chinese immigrant, met with a collegiate suffrage group in 1912 at the Portland Hotel and gave a speech supporting women's suffrage.Esther Pohl Lovejoy created Everybody’s Equal Suffrage League that offered a lifetime membership for 25 cents.Hattie Redmond served as president of the Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage Association which spread “equal suffrage ideas among those of the race.”Katherine and Edith Gray–an African American mother-daughter team– organized voter registration and political education drives for Black voters.Sara Bard Field Ehrgott joined Frances Jolliffe in 1915 on a cross-country car trek to deliver a petition demanding a federal suffrage amendment to President Wilson.The annual Pendleton Round-up rodeo was on the suffragist speaking tour where they were regularly cheered by crowds. ABOUT OUR GUESTJanice Dilg is principal and consulting historian of HistoryBuilt. She is a founding member of the Oregon Women’s History Consortium and was part of the 19th Amendment centennial celebration in 2020. She is the State Coordinator for the NVWT.Links to People, Places, PublicationsOregon and the 19th Amendment (here)Women’s Suffrage in Oregon (here)Visit the State Capitol and the Votes for Women Trail marker (here)Abigail Scott Duniway Biographical Sketch (here)Esther Pohl Lovejoy Biographical Sketch (here)Chinese American Woman Suffrage in 1912 Portland (here)Harriet “Hattie” Redmond Biographical Sketch (here)Katherine Gray Biographical Sketch (here)Edith Gray Biographical Sketch (here)Sara Bard Field Biographical Sketch (here)Sylvia Thompson Biographical Sketch (here</CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Marsha Weinstein, past president of the NCWHS, discusses the struggle for the women’s vote at sites on the NVWT.We talk about the activists in KY votes for women campaigns:Susan Look Avery was an inclusive voice in the suffrage movement by advocating for both Black and white women.Georgia and Alice Nugent played a pivotal role in advancing the African American suffrage movement and were later active in voter education.Josephine Henry fought for equality for women under the law as well as being the first woman to run for statewide office.Eugenia Farmer became a leader in the suffrage movement after befriending Susan B. Anthony.Dr. Mary E. Britton was a political activist and was the first African-American female doctor in the state of Kentucky.Madeline McDowell Breckinridge lectured on women’s suffrage extensively, even traveling while she suffered from tuberculosis.ABOUT OUR GUESTMarsha Weinstein is a past president of the NCWHS and has researched and spoken extensively on the women’s suffrage movement. She is the NVWT State Coordinator and was highly instrumental in the growth of the NVWT. Links to People, Places, PublicationsKentucky and the 19th Amendment (here)History of Women’s Suffrage in Kentucky (here)Susan Look Avery Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Susan Look Avery marker (here)Georgia Anne Nugent Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Nugent sisters’ marker (here)Josephine Henry Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Josephine Henry marker (here)Eugenia B. Farmer Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Eugenia B. Farmer marker (here)Dr. Mary E. Britton Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Dr. Mary E. Britton marker (here)Mary Barr Clay Biographical Sketch (hereCM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Liz Almlie talks about the struggle of the suffrage movement in South Dakota by visiting sites along the National Votes for Women Trail. We visit sites of the events and activists in the SD votes for women campaign. Learn about the “Flying Squadron” suffrage rallies in the town of Lead where women gave street speeches and held rallies at the Homestake Opera Theater. Alice and John Pickler were a political power couple that fought doggedly for suffrage despite being frequently ridiculed. Mamie Shields Pyle, operating from her home in Huron, was a leader in the movement lobbying legislators and the public, including speaking year after year at the state fair. Zitkála-Šá was a Yankton Dakota writer, musician, educator, and political activist. She fought for rights of American Indians including for citizenship and for women’s suffrage, often speaking at the Capitol in Pierre.ABOUT OUR GUESTLiz Almlie is a Historic Preservation Specialist with the South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office and is NVWT State Coordinator. She has researched the suffrage movement in South Dakota extensively and has an M.A. in Public History.Links to People, Places, PublicationsSouth Dakota and the 19th Amendment (here)Alice and John Pickler, South Dakota Public Broadcasting (here)Pickler Suffrage Collection, South Dakota State Historical Society (here)Visit the historic Pickler Mansion in Faulkton (here)Mary Shields Pyle Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the historic Pyle House Museum in Huron (here)Zitkála-Šá Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre (here)Visit and see a play at the Grand Opera house in Pierre (here)Visit the former St. Charles Hotel in Pierre (here)“Flying Squadron” or “Suffrage Special” speaking tours (here)Visit the Homestake Opera House in Lead (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode on Illinois, Lori Osborne, Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project, discusses the struggle for the women’s vote at sites on the National Votes for Women Trail.We talk about stories of people and events of the IL campaign:Ida B. Wells-Barnett founded the Alpha Suffrage Club with Belle Squire in 1913, which was the first organization to promote suffrage for Black women in Chicago.Jane Addams advocated for women’s suffrage in order to enact laws that pertained to improved labor conditions, and legal equity for African Americans and immigrants.Catharine Waugh McCulloch was a lawyer who introduced a legislative bill in 1893 to give Illinois women the vote. She fought for its passage for 20 years and finally saw it succeed in 1913.Grace Wilbur Trout organized the first suffrage auto tour in 1910 using a neighbor's car. She traveled with three others to 16 towns in five days giving speeches for woman's suffrage.Elizabeth Boynton Harbert was a leader in the women's suffrage movement as an author, lecturer, and editor.ABOUT OUR GUESTLori Osborne is the Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project in Evanston and specializes in women's history research and historic sites. Lori is the State Coordinator for the NVWT and a past NCWHS board member.Links to People, Places, PublicationsIllinois and the 19th Amendment (here)Suffrage 2020 Illinois website (here)Ida B. Wells-Barnett Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Ida B. Wells-Barnett marker in Chicago (here)Visit the Ida B. Wells National Monument in Chicago (here)Jane Addams Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Jane Addams Hull House Museum in Chicago (here)Frances Willard Biographical Sketch (here)Catherine Waugh McCulloch Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Catherine Waugh McCulloch marker and park in Evanston (here)Grace Wilbur Trout Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Grace Wilbur Trout marker in Oak Park (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode on Nevada, Dr. Joanne Goodwin, discusses the struggle for the women’s vote at sites on the NVWT.We talk about the events and suffragists in the NV votes for women campaign:Three prominent men in business and politics organized the first women's suffrage convention in Nevada in 1870.Frances Slaven Williamson fully dedicated herself to fighting for women’s suffrage after losing her husband and five children. Sarah Winnemucca was a political activist for the rights of her Northern Paiute tribe and the other indigenous peoples. These focused first on survival rather than the vote.Anne Martin traveled to England where she learned about militant tactics of the suffrage movement. She traveled extensively in Nevada to mining sites, ranches, and small towns. She and fellow suffragists descended into mines to speak to working miners.Bird Wilson was a lawyer and suffragist who distributed 20,000 copies of her booklet, Women Under Nevada Laws.  She was an innovative marketer and fundraiser for suffrage.ABOUT OUR GUESTDr. Joanne Goodwin is Professor Emerita of History and Director Emerita of the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada at the Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas and serves on the NCWHS board. Her interest is 20th century U.S. history with a specialization in women and gender history.Links to People, Places, PublicationsNevada and the 19th Amendment (here)Nevada Suffrage Centennial (here)Visit First Woman Suffrage Convention marker (here)Frances Slaven Williamson Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Frances Slaven Williamson marker(here)Anne Martin Biographical Sketch (here)Felice Cohn Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Felice Cohn historical marker (here)Bird Wilson Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the 1907 Esmeralda County Courthouse (here)Marjorie Moore Brown Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Marjorie Moore Brown marker (here)Delphine Squires Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Delphine Squires and the Mesquite Club marker (here)Sarah Winnemucca Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Sarah Winnemucca historical marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, Dr. Anne Boylan, Professor Emerita of History and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, discusses the suffrage struggle at sites on the NVWT.We talk about the events and activists in the DE voting rights campaign:Mabel Lloyd Ridgely employed lobbying techniques including buttonholing legislators–made easier given her Dover house was a stone’s throw from the State House.Florence Bayard Hilles and Mabel Vernon were members of National Woman’s Party which supported militant tactics.Emma Gibson Sykes publicly called out a Delaware house member for racist rhetoric in a letter to the editor to Delaware’s Sunday Morning Star.The Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington housed the Equal Suffrage Study Club for Black women and held collaborative meetings with white and Black suffragists.Munitions workers at Bethlehem Steel in Newcastle joined the National Women’s Party and made their argument for suffrage stating that their work contributed to the war effort, just as soldiers' did. ABOUT OUR GUESTDr. Anne Boylan is Professor Emerita of History and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and author of  Votes for Delaware Women (2021). She is Delaware coordinator for the online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement.Links to People, Places, Publications:Delaware & the 19th Amendment (here)Women’s Suffrage in Delaware (here)Visit the Delaware Women’s Suffrage memorial (here)Mabel Lloyd Ridgely Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Mabel Lloyd Ridgely marker (here)Florence Bayard Hilles Biographical Sketch (here)Mabel Vernon Biographical Sketch (here)Ethel Cuff Black Biographical Sketch (here)Emma Gibson Sykes Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the 1914 Suffrage parade marker (here)Alice Dunbar-Nelson Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Alice Dunbar-Nelson marker (here)Blanche Williams Stubbs Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Blanche Stubbs marker (here)Visit the African American Suffrage Club marker (here)Visit the Women Munitions Workers marker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In the second of two episodes on Alabama, Dr. Alex Colvin, Public Programs Curator at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, talks about the struggle for voting rights in the decades after 1920.We talk about the events and foot soldiers in AL voting rights campaigns after 1920:Hattie Hooker Wilkins of Selma was the first woman to be elected to serve in the state legislature.Mrs. Indiana Little led a group of African Americans to register to vote in 1926 in Birmingham. They were all denied by the registrar, and Indiana Little was arrested.Amelia Boynton Robinson was a central figure in the voting rights movement and in 1958, she testified in front of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Montgomery, outlining the ways Black citizens were disenfranchised through legal and extralegal means.Betty Anderson was 15 when she marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 and kept going even though she had worn holes in her Converse sneakers.ABOUT OUR GUESTDr. Alex Colvin is the Public Programs Curator at Alabama Department of Archives and History and the State Coordinator for the National Votes for Women Trail. She has a PhD in early American history with a focus on Creek history at the turn of the 19th Century.Links to People, Places, PublicationsAlabama and the 19th Amendment (here)Suffrage–The Alabama Story (here)How Women Got the Vote in Alabama (here)Hattie Hooker Wilkins Biographical Sketch (here)Indiana T. Little Biographical Sketch (here)The Birmingham Reporter, Jan. 23, 1926, article on Mrs. Little (here)“’I Will Not Move’: The Story of Alabama Suffragist Indiana Little” video (here)Selma to Montgomery March, 1965 (here)Virtual tour of “Justice Not Favor” exhibit with Betty Anderson sneaker (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In the first of two episodes on Alabama, Dr. Alex Colvin, Public Programs Curator at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, talks about the the suffrage struggle up until 1920 by visiting sites along the National Votes for Women Trail.We visit sites of the events and foot soldiers in the AL votes for women campaign:Susan B. Anthony’s visit to the Alabama Woman Suffrage Association in Decatur where newspapers commended Anthony for being “as good a lecturer as a good man lecturer.”Adella Hunt Logan was a prominent Black suffragist who was renowned nationally for her oratory and writing skills. She taught at Tuskegee University and was of African American, Cherokee, and white descent. Francis Griffin was the first woman to speak to an Alabama lawmaking body in Montgomery in 1901. Even though some members tried to silence her, she advocated for a women’s suffrage provision in the new constitution.The Selma Equal Suffrage Association with suffragist Hattie Hooker Wilkins’ found inventive ways to spread information in Selma and statewide.The Alabama Equal Suffrage Association convention in February 1914 in Huntsville, where hundreds of women and men assembled to learn about suffrage.The “Suffrage Day” baseball game in Birmingham in 1915 where the Birmingham Barons team wore yellow sashes and local women’s teams played exhibition innings.ABOUT OUR GUESTDr. Alex Colvin is the Public Programs Curator at Alabama Department of Archives and History and State Coordinator for the National Votes for Women Trail. Her PhD is in early American history with a focus on Creek history at the turn of the 19th Century.Links to People, Places, PublicationsAlabama and the 19th Amendment (here)Suffrage–The Alabama Story (here)How Women Got the Vote in Alabama (here)Visit the Votes for Women historical marker in Decatur (here)Adella Hunt Logan Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Votes for Women historical marker in Tuskegee (here)Frances Griffin Biographical Sketch (here)Visit Bicentennial Park at the Capitol in Montgomery (here)Hattie Hooker Wilkins Biographical Sketch (here)Visit the Votes for Women historical marker in Selma (here)“Suffrage Day” and the Birmingham Barons baseball game (here)Visit the Votes for Women marker at Rickwood Field in Birmingham (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

In this episode, CM Marihugh gives an overview of how the stories of the women’s suffrage movement are represented in the National Votes for Women Trail (NVWT), which is a project of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS). We talk with Ida Jones about the NCWHS vision. We also ask Pam Elam and Mary Melcher about their work that grew to become the NVWT.We talk about the NVWT stories of the foot soldiers in the 70-plus year U.S. women’s suffrage campaign:The women’s suffrage political struggle resulted in the largest one-time increase in the elective franchise when 27 million citizens joined the ranks of America's representative democracy.The NVWT tells the stories of this movement and cuts across the lines of geography, race, ethnicity, class, and gender. The Trail currently has over 2,400 sites across the country. Ida Jones is co-president of the NCWHS which advocates for historic sites that center the preservation and interpretation of the critical role of women and gender nonconforming individuals as core to the American story. Pam Elam and Mary Melcher created an idea for a national trail back in 2008 while serving on the board of NCWHS. Later, others including Marsha Weinstein and Nancy Brown took up the idea and developed the NVWT to where it is today.Pam Elam is president of Monumental Women which seeks to increase awareness and appreciation of women’s history through a nationwide education campaign. The organization challenges municipalities across the country and the world to rethink the past and reshape the future by including tributes in their public spaces to the diverse women who helped create and inspire those cities.Mary Melcher is Board Secretary of the Arizona Women’s History Alliance– dedicated to expanding understanding and preservation of Arizona women's history.The NVWT is an ongoing project. Contact us below to get involved.ABOUT OUR GUESTSIn this episode Ida Jones, NCWHS co-president, talks about the organization’s vision and work. Pam Elam is president of Monumental Women working to increase awareness and appreciation of women’s history. Mary Melcher is board secretary of the Arizona Women’s History Alliance which works to expand appreciation and preservation of Arizona women’s history. Links to People, Places, PublicationsNational Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Historical Marker Database (here)Monumental Women (here)Arizona Women’s History Alliance (here)CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]

 Welcome to Her March To Democracy where we're telling stories along the National Votes For Women Trail. The trail chronicles the fight for voting rights for women. If you are a historian, history enthusiast, heritage tourist, or simply want to be inspired, listen to the stories of these remarkable and heroic activists who never wavered in their belief in democracy and the rule of law. CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.Learn more about:National Votes for Women Trail (here)National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)Do you have a question, comment, or suggestion? Get in touch! Send an e-mail to [email protected]