Episode 92 – Voter Suppression Part 2: Woman Suffrage in Color

Christianity, Civil War, Congress, Diversity, Domestic Policy, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelicals, Feminist Movements, History, Immigration, Society and Culture, The Presidency, voting rights, White Supremacy by Jaye

This multi-episode series is about efforts to suppress or limit the vote in certain communities across the United States in order to achieve specific outcomes.

In Part 2, Jaye discusses the history of voting rights in the United States based on sex from the founding until the immediate aftermath of the 19th Amendment, which prohibited the government from restricting women from the ballot box. The woman suffrage movement in the United States, as the defining issue in first wave feminism, was that of both diversity and internal conflict. Jaye discusses the intersection of sex, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic class in the direction of the woman suffrage movement, and how events at the time led to the movement intentionally sidelining Black women in its quest for the franchise.