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 NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org

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 NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org

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, Publications

Missouri & 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 NVWTpodcast@ncwhs.org