Amended

Humanities New York

Sex was never the only battleground for women’s voting rights. Amended, a podcast from Humanities New York, marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment by challenging the suffrage story most Americans learn in school. Host Laura Free, a historian of women and politics, and her guests take us back to the 1800's and up to the present day to tell the stories of under-recognized women who also fought injustice based on race, citizenship status and class.

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Amended

Episodes (11)

May 5, 2021 Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds
May 5, 2021 Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds
Apr 28, 2021 Bonus: "Freedom Summer" from Scene on Radio

Amended

May 5, 2021
45¼ minutes
104 MB

When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, a large number of Native American women still could not vote. The U.S. government did not recognize them as citizens. And if having U.S. citizenship required them to renounce tribal sovereignty, many Native women didn’t want it. But early-twentieth-century writer, composer, and activist Zitkála-Šá was determined to fight for both. In this episode, host Laura Free speaks with digital artist Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota) whose art is inspired by Dakota imagery and history, and by Zitkála-Šá’s legacy. Dr. Cathleen Cahill, author of Recasting the Vote: How Women of C...

Amended

Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds

Humanities New York

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