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🗓️ 10 December 2024
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Woodrow Wilson might have been a progressive, but he was not happy about the progress women made in securing the right to vote. In this episode, former congressman and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox explains why.
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn
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1:18.9 | Thank you. July 1848, a group of men and women gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, in support of women's rights. |
1:27.1 | They published the Declaration of Sentiments, a landmark document that in many ways started the American suffrage movement. For the next 70 years, women like |
1:29.6 | Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many others led a tireless crusade to secure for their |
1:35.8 | fellow women the right to vote. That effort would remain unfulfilled until after Anthony and Stanton |
1:42.8 | passed from the scene well into the 20th century. |
1:46.1 | It was then that a new generation of suffragists like Kerry Chapman-Cat and Alice Paul had |
1:51.7 | risen to carry on the fight. By 1913, they had made great progress, but they faced a powerful |
1:57.8 | array of opposition. One of their opponents was the most powerful man in the |
2:02.3 | country, the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Our guest today has written a book |
2:08.7 | about the struggle between Wilson and the suffragists. His name is Christopher Cox. He's a senior |
2:14.7 | scholar in residence at the University of California, Irvine, and a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He's a senior scholar in residence at the University of California, Irvine, and a former member |
2:19.3 | of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
2:21.3 | He's also served as the chair of the U.S. Security as an Exchange Commission and was |
2:27.3 | Senior Associate Council in the White House to President Ronald Reagan. |
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