Lectures tagged "voting rights"

Struggle for Unity: Boston Women and School Suffrage
Polly Kaufman
March 24, 2009
00:36:06
Polly Kaufman explains how Boston suffrage leaders worked to keep the goal of achieving full suffrage in the forefront despite controversies that developed among women based on societal and ethnic differences.
Women Against the Vote: Anti-Suffragists in Massachusetts
Aliza Saivetz
March 12, 2009
00:37:31
Aliza Saivetz of Old South Meeting House, and Jayne Gordon and Kathleen Barker of the Massachusetts Historical Society explore women's participation in the anti-suffrage movement.
Suffrage and Beyond: Boston Women's Legal History
Bonnie Hurd Smith
March 5, 2009
00:38:48
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.
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Elections, Successions and Post-Literate America
Michael Dawson
October 27, 2004
01:29:40
A panel of political, media, and education experts explore issues ranging from the use of satire as a political tool to black voter suppression.