A special live event to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, featuring acclaimed UCLA historian Ellen Carol Dubois.
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2020
Time: 1:30 p.m. (HST)
Where: Zoom
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The event is an installment of the University of Hawaiʻi’s Better Tomorrow speaker series.
The women’s suffrage movement was an epic struggle for civil rights and democracy. Founded by abolitionists, the movement persisted through the Civil War, Jim Crow and Progressivism, and finally achieved victory in 1920, on the heels of world war and a global pandemic.
Dubois shows that ratification of the 19th amendment required both skilled lobbying and radical direct action, and she spotlights new champions in the fight, like Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells.
Although women won the right to vote a century ago, the lessons of their struggle are newly resonant today, as a new wave of #MeToo feminism takes shape, as struggles over voting rights return to center stage, and as mass movements are once again changing our sense of the possible.
Ellen Carol Dubois is the author and co-author of numerous books, including “Through Women’s Eyes,” the leading textbook in U.S. women’s history, and “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote” (Simon & Schuster, 2020). She is a professor emeritus at UCLA, a Guggenheim fellow, and she has appeared frequently on National Public Radio.
Dubois will be interviewed by UH historian Robert Perkinson, and the conversation will include special guests from the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the Hawai‘i ACLU, and other organizations.