Michael Monks, host of WVXU’s “Cincinnati Edition,” interviewed me about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. In the interview, we talked about why it took two centuries of agitation before the political establishment made room for female voters, and the role of the states, and even […]
Motherhood Moment Blog Features New Book — And Yet They Persisted
Thanks to Bekah Jorgensen, a blogger at the Motherhood Moment, for a wonderful interview about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. Check it out here and let me know what you think. You can reach me at johanna.neuman@me.com. And in case you missed it, some of […]
And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote Published Today
Publication date is today for my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote. Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton first called for women to have the vote at the Seneca Falls women’s rights convention. And they end in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th […]
Appearing on Newstalk’s KXYL 102.3 in Texas on Monday at 8:10 AM
Tune in to hear me talk about my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, with hosts JR Williams and Cellinda Hawkins. Looking forward to the conversation Monday November 25, from 8:10 a.m. Eastern. We will talk about why it took so long for American women to win […]
When Women Went to Jail for the Right to Vote — in America
It is not well known but some American women went to jail for their right to vote. In a prison that had been discarded ten years earlier as “unfit to hold a human being,” they were subjected to insect-infected food, sunless cells and in some cases brutal attack. A few went on hunger strikes and […]
Restoring Black Suffragists to Feminist History
A few weeks ago my great-niece came home from school in distress. “The teacher said I was white,” she told her mother. “But we’re not white!” In the eyes of a six-year-old, people are the color she will need to find in her crayon box to draw them — peach or beige or cocoa […]