The Friends of the Transylvania County Library is proud to sponsor, Unsung Suffragettes, a video presentation by the students of Dr. Margaret Brown’s U.S. Women’s History course at Brevard College.
It took the United States 130 years after the Constitution was written to give women the right to vote. The women who first petitioned for this right in 1848 didn’t live to see it happen. Not even Susan B. Anthony, whose name is more associated with this movement than anyone else, got to vote (legally). Despite the persistence of Anthony and the fame of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, the students in U.S. Women’s History at Brevard College wanted to find out about the suffragettes you don’t know, especially those who worked to incorporate women who were NOT white, college educated and native born.
Join us in a celebration of some of the women who brought us the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The presentation can be viewed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/UxX8cheLv1A or by visiting the Transylvania County Library’s YouTube Channel (TransCoLib).