Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Women began fighting for the right to vote in the early 1800s, but they did not gain the vote until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. During their 100-year struggle, suffrage activists, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sarah Garnet, encountered discrimination, insults, repudiation, violence, and legal defeats. Yet they did not give up. This presentation looks at the history of the women’s suffrage movement and the women who played a significant part in achieving women’s right to vote.