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 NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org

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 NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org

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 NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org