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The Suffrage Movement's Unfinished Business

KCBS Radio In Depth
KCBS Radio In Depth
Episode • Aug 22, 2020 • 27m

As we mark the 100-year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, KCBS In Depth takes a look back at the suffrage movement in California -- what it achieved and what was left unfinished -- and also consider how the legacy of activism that the suffrage movement helped create is still reshaping politics today. 

Guests: 

  • Elaine Elinson, writer, co-author of “Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
  • Aimee Allison, founder of She the People

Hosts: Keith Menconi, Melissa Culross  

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