Hello friend, welcome. So excited you're with me today. I'm sharing a conversation with

Dr. Elizabeth Griffith, who has written an incredible work called Formitable, and it is about American women and the fight for equality.

If we want to move forward in history with open eyes we have to learn from the past.

So let's start in. open eyes we have to learn from the past.

So let's start in.

I'm Sharon McMahon.

And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

I am so excited to be chatting today with Dr Elizabeth Griffith. Thank you so much for being

here. It's a pleasure and how nice to be returning to the Midwest even if only on audio.

Oh, I read with such interest your book called Formitable.

And the

the fight for equality. And I think we have this idea that equality happened for American women

when women gained the right to vote. I think that's sort of the impression

that many people have that you know like hey we can vote everybody's equal now and

that was obviously not the case and I would love to hear more about why

you chose this topic. It's an important topic and because of all the hoop law about the

19th amendment and it enfranchised 26 million white and black American women.

But it did not cover everybody. It did not protect those black women. It was a federal rule that said that women could not be discriminated against on

account of sex, but that did not mean that state laws could not discriminate and whether they were able to vote

what barriers were put up before them. A journalist said ten years after suffrage

passed that the 19th Amendment promised almost everything and delivered almost nothing.

There was such excitement over the possibility that women were going to vote.

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