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How did the suffrage movement win the right to vote for all women in the United States?

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8:54 p.m.

On this week\u2019s episode of Politics In Question, Colleen Shogan joins Julia, Lee, and James to discuss the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and the suffrage movement that made it happen. Colleen is Senior Vice President and Director of the David M. Rubenstein Center at the White House Historical Association. She is also Vice Chair of the Women\u2019s Suffrage Centennial Commission. Colleen is also the author of the Washington Whodunnit series of mystery novels.\n\nWhy did it take so long for women to gain the right to vote in this country? How did the small group of women who first met in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention create a nationwide protest movement that would eventually succeed in amending the Constitution? And what can their efforts teach us about our current political dysfunction? These are some of the questions Colleen, Julia, Lee, and James discuss on this week\u2019s episode.