119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment
“President Wilson, how long must we wait for liberty?” This is the story of women’s suffrage. According to the legal doctrine of coverture, a married woman is “covered” by her husband. Legally, economically, politically—she largely ceases to exist. Yet, does widowed colonial Lydia Taft get to vote? And why does…
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