#2025 “Votes for Women!” Part II

#2025 “Votes for Women!” Part II

Instructor: Katherine Sturdevant

In August of 1920, Tennessee became the last state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting American women the right to vote. Celebrating the centennial of that moment, we shall examine how the campaign for suffrage developed nationally, with drama, humor, and inspirational characters. How was it for women to defend their right to vote when social norms taught that they should not even speak or appear publically? The West, and Colorado in particular, turned out to be the seedbed in which suffrage would finally bloom, leading the nation. Getting there, however, was a long experiment with strategies that often fell flat. See what a debt we owe to our suffragists!

Tuesday, July 7, 10am

Katherine Sturdevant, MA and BA in History from San Francisco State University. She is a PPCC History Professor, and was a 3X Jackson Fellow, Colorado College Southwest Studies. She was keynote speaker for California’s Ramona Pageant. She analyzed Jackson for the PPLD Regional Histories Series symposium and book. She spoke on Jackson at national literary conferences, most recently for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, American Literature Association, in Boston.