In this episode, we talk about the votes for women movement in California.

• Maria de Lopez was a Latina suffragist who brought a powerful bilingual voice to California’s suffrage drive, both speaking and writing in Spanish.
• John Hyde Braly was a prominent businessman and public education advocate who became a staunch suffragist and started the Political Equality League to recruit influential men to the cause.
• Charlotta Bass published her newspaper for the Black community, The California Eagle, advocating votes for women as well as waging a “fearless war against segregation and discrimination.”
• Ellen Clark and Aaron A. Sargent were a suffrage power couple with Senator Sargent making history by introducing the 29-word woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Senate in 1878. It was reintroduced every year for over forty years.
• Selina Solomon, born to a Jewish immigrant family, focused her suffrage campaign on wage-earning women and their needs.

About our Guest:

Robert Cooney is an editor and graphic designer who wrote the groundbreaking volume, “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement.” The illustrated history book was published in 2005 after 12 years of work and details events chronologically using hundreds of news photographs and original source material. Museum curators have called it “the Bible of the suffrage movement.” Mr. Cooney has worked in collaboration with the National Women’s History Alliance for more than 30 years and was active in planning and promoting suffrage centennial events in California in 2011 and nationally in 2020. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation.

Links to People, Places, Publications:

California & the 19th Amendment (here)

Maria Guadalupe Evangelina de Lopez Biographical Sketch (here)

Ellen Clark Sargent Biographical Sketch (here)

Charlotta Bass Biographical Sketch (here)

Selina Solomon Biographical Sketch (here)

Elizabeth Thatcher Kent Biographical Sketch (here)

Clara Shortridge Foltz Biographical Sketch (here)

Visit the 19th Amendment “I Vote” murals (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 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