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Bonus Ep: Cult of True Womanhood

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4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bonus Episode | This week, we wanted to share “And Nothing Less,” the new short series from our colleagues at the National Park Service and PRX. It gives a much-needed closer look at the twisty history of the 19th Amendment - and its lesser-known heroes. It’s hosted by two fabulous women: Rosario Dawson and Retta. We’ll play the first episode right here, and you can find the rest of the series by searching (enunciate) “And Nothing Less” wherever you get your podcasts! 

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0:00.0

Hi side door listeners, we're in your feeds a little earlier than usual because we got something special for you.

0:04.8

Bonus listening.

0:06.1

If you heard our recent episode, Votes for Hawaiians, you already know that the legacy of the

0:10.9

19th Amendment is a lot more complicated than the version

0:13.7

many of us learned in middle school. That story goes something like, and so it was

0:18.2

then and forever more that American women could vote.

0:22.6

The end.

0:23.6

That's what we wanted to share and nothing less, the new short series from our colleagues at the National

0:28.8

Park Service and PRX.

0:30.6

It gives a much needed closer look at the twisty history of the 19th Amendment and its lesser-known heroes.

0:36.2

It's hosted by two fabulous women Rosario Dawson and Retta.

0:40.4

We'll play the first episode right here and you can find the rest of the series by searching and nothing less wherever you get your podcasts.

0:49.0

We'll be back next week with our regularly scheduled side door programming.

0:53.7

In the meantime, here's and nothing less.

1:00.6

It's August 18th, 1920.

1:04.0

There's an up-and-coming young Tennessee legislator named Harry T. Byrne.

1:08.0

He is, in fact, the youngest member of the State House.

1:12.0

He didn't know it when he walked to the State House that

1:14.0

morning, but his eye or his nay would be the deciding one when it came to

1:18.8

protecting the right to vote for millions of women in the country.

1:21.8

You see the fight for a federal law, one that would guarantee voting rights for women on a national scale,

1:29.4

a fight that lasted more than 70 years, multiple wars, and yes, even a pandemic, it came down to Tennessee.

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