The Women Who Fought For The Right To Vote

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified exactly 100 years ago Tuesday, the culmination of decades of activism that finally gave women the right to vote.

Finish the Fight! is a new children’s book that chronicles the stories of some of the lesser-known suffragettes that made the 19th Amendment possible.

Greta talks with author Veronica Chambers about 100 years of women’s suffrage and some of her favorite, lesser-known suffragettes.

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0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdett
0:19.6	I'm Greta Johnson and today
0:21.1	August 18th 2020 marks 100 years exactly since the passage of the
0:28.2	19th Amendment and that my ladies is why we are allowed to vote here in the United States.
0:37.1	Women fought for the right to vote for decades.
0:39.4	It is one of the longest social reform movements in American history. And odds are you probably
0:45.5	know about some of the women who fought for that right? Women like Susan B Anthony
0:49.2	and Elizabeth Katie Stanton, but there are lots of other women, especially from marginalized groups who helped
0:55.4	fight the good fight, who aren't necessarily remembered in, you know, our high school history
1:00.8	books. The author of a new book is hoping to change that. Her name is
1:05.2	Victoria Chambers and she is a senior editor at the New York Times. She and some other time
1:10.2	staffers teamed up to write a new book called Finish the Fight, the brave and revolutionary
1:14.9	women who fought for the right to vote.
1:17.3	Veronica is with us now from New York in the midst of a thunderstorm.
1:24.4	Veronica hi.
1:25.4	Hi, thank you so much for having us.
1:28.0	Me. I am.
1:30.0	You can speak in the Royal Wheelie.
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