America We Need Discussion Group

In honor of the passage of the 19th Amendment and in preparation for our push to get out the vote, we have been taking an in-depth look into how women have struggled and fought to win the right to cast their ballot. 

In this session we will once again use some articles from the special section of The New York Times, which can be accessed online at:

 www.nytimes.com/spotlight/women-suffrage-100 

The specific articles for discussion from this publication are:

• How the Spanish Flu almost Upended Women’s Suffrage by Alisha Gupta
  
• Meet the Brave But Overlooked Women of Color Who Fought for the Vote by Chambers and Schuessler
  
• Suffrage Isn’t ‘Boring History’ It’s a Story of Political Geniuses by Bennett and Chambers
  

Finish The Fight: a special digital theater performance

• 100 Years of Voting Hasn’t Done What We Thought it Would  by Gail Collins (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/sunday/19th-amendment-women-suffrage.html)
• Women Would Abolish Child Labor (and Other Anti-Suffrage Excuses) by Elaine Weiss (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/opinion/sunday/suffrage-19th-amendment.html?)