Ep19: Voter Suppression Of Minority Women After 1920. A Chat With Historian Liette Gidlow.

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Voter suppression isn’t new to America. In this episode, we talk to author and historian Liette Gidlow about tactics used to keep women, namely minority women, from casting a ballot after 1920 when the 19th Amendment finally passed. Some registrars got creative while others literally ran and hid. We talk about how disenfranchisement within our country runs counter to the story of America expanding democracy around the world. Liette Gidlow is the author of the book "The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s". She also has an essay in “Suffrage at 100”.