119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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“President Wilson, how long must we wait for liberty?” This is the story of women’s suffrage. According to the legal doctrine of coverture, a married woman is “covered” by her husband. Legally, economically, politically—she largely ceases to exist. Yet, does widowed colonial Lydia Taft get to vote? And why does Revolutionary New Jersey buck the system, specifically writing a voting law that describes voters as “he or she,” then later disenfranchise women? Decades pass, but the idea of women’s suffrage is resurrected. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Stone, and staunch male supporters, like Henry Blackwell and Frederick Douglass, fight for it. But relationships fray as other women, anti-suffragists, fight against women’s suffrage. Entering the twenty-first-century women picket, march, face forced feedings, and endure abuse; in one case, a beloved suffragist dies. But their sacrifices won’t be in vain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	History that doesn't suck is a bi-weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously research
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0:24.3	It's Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911.
0:28.1	We're at the corner of Washington Place and Green Street in New York City's Greenwich
0:31.7	Village on the 8th floor of the ash building, where employees of the Triangle Shirt Waste
0:36.5	Company are busily cranking out their namesake product.
0:40.0	The ever-popular, simple, yet professional, button-down women's blouse, known as the shirt
0:45.2	waste.
0:46.2	This is no small enterprise.
0:48.2	Occupying all three of the 10 story ash buildings top floors, the Triangle Shirt Waste
0:52.8	Company boasts 500-plus workers.
0:56.3	They've also placed our recent Ellis Island arrivals, so heavily Italian and Jewish,
1:00.4	and almost entirely female.
1:02.3	Yes, as we look across the open workspace of the 8th floor, at the rows of tightly packed
1:07.7	and humming sewing machines and the seven long, cloth covered cutting tables, it's predominantly
1:12.6	women and teenage girls that are making everything here operating.
1:16.1	It's now 4.40pm, about time to close up shop.
1:21.0	Workers are grabbing their hats and coats, and preparing to descend at least 8 if not
1:25.0	all 10 floors to head home.
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