A Global History of the 19th Amendment

Investigate the ways American women’s final push for suffrage was shaped by world historical events with this lecture by Dr. Mona Siegel. Drawing from her new book, Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World War, Siegel highlights how women's activism in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East aided the 19th Amendment’s ratification and explores why African-American, labor, and pacifist suffragists from the United States advocated for women’s rights abroad in 1919, even as the fight for suffrage was reaching a perilous climax at home.

[ameirpittman]

My History teacher sent me here I'm watching this for a grade.

[CJ]

I wouldn't say Wilson spent the majority of his life opposing women's suffrage per se. He was for a state by state (he advocated for NJ to grant women the right to vote when he was governor there) approach though because that's where his Party was.

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I think having an engaged, active, invested, and most importantly, liberty minded, voting population is critical for any society based on individual freedom to function.

Do you think the material differences between how men and woman “fought” for their rights have had an impact on how those rights are viewed and valued?