I'm Jill Weinbanks here today for a special two-part series of talking feds with the Sisters

in Law, Joy Spants and Barbara McQuade.

We are recording this week to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment

giving women the right to vote and will be talking with very special guests about voting

rights.

We, in part one of the podcasts, will be joined by Anita Gupta, an American civil

rights attorney.

She is the president and chief executive officer of the leadership conference of civil

and human rights and is very involved in protecting our voting rights.

We also are joined by Pam Carlin, who is also an American lawyer and a professor of

law at Stanford Law School.

She is a leading legal scholar on voting rights and the political process.

She served as the deputy attorney general with voting rights in the Department of Justice

from 2014 to 2015 and next week will follow up with a conversation with Sherylyn Eiffel,

a lawyer and the president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

So I'd like to start today by asking Barbara and Joyce for your views of the 19th Amendment.

Joyce, let's start with you.

You know, I've always found it a little bit interesting that we talk about giving women

the right to vote when in fact we actually had to affirmatively seize it for ourselves.

It was these all male legislatures in many cases that voted to quote unquote give it to

us, but women worked so hard behind the scenes to get the right to vote.

And I was part of the Alabama Bar Association's task force on the 19th Amendment.

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