39 Words, 30,000 Women: Minnesota’s Suffrage Landslide
On June 4th, 1919, a federal telegraph wire hit Minnesota announcing that Congress had finally passed the 19th Amendment. It triggered an instant, military-grade ground game. After forty years of dealing with patronizing compromises and legislative gridlock, Clara Ueland and a network of 30,000 organized women flipped a switch. They forced a special session and delivered an absolute landslide. In this episode, we trace how a multi-generational grassroots apparatus bent the state's male power structure to its will, why a gritty meatpacking town unexpectedly made national history at 6:00 AM…
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