Journalist Elaine Weiss's "THE WOMAN’S HOUR: The Great Fight to Win the Vote"

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Feb 17, 2023 · 9m

Elaine Weiss's THE WOMAN’S HOUR: The Great Fight to Win the Vote tells the true story of the suffragettes—women in the face of enormous opposition who fought for and won American women's right to vote in 1920, a long 131 years after American men cast their first ballots. As the book opens up, it's that fateful summer. After 70 years of a long fought campaign for equal citizenship for 27 million women, one of the pivotal political battles in United States history is unfolding in Nashville, Tennessee. The women's suffrage movement needed just one more state to ratify the 19th Amendment, and it…