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Suffrage and Beyond: Boston Women's Legal History
March 5, 2009
Bonnie Hurd Smith historian

Local historian Bonnie Hurd Smith looks at four centuries of women's legal history in Boston, as discussed in her recent book Boston Women & The Law.

Women's struggles to achieve legal rights and participate fully as voters, attorneys, and judges are part of a centuries-long story that is still playing out today. From Quakers and "witches" who were hanged in colonial Boston to the state's first woman Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, Boston Women & The Law relates dozens of colorful stories.

This lecture is part of "March to the Polls: Massachusetts and the Woman Suffrage Movement", a collaboration between Old South Meeting House and The Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Activism | Boston | judical rights | suffragettes | voting rights | women's history | women's rights | North American | Women's Issues
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