Hindsight: Speaking Truth To Power

In this final episode of Hindsight, we will explore how women became active participants in the political process and candidates for political office.

As the United States celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote, KMUW is celebrating too with a behind the scenes peek of the new podcast, Hindsight. Creator Dr. Robin Henry sat down with Sarah Jane Crespo to discuss her method of capturing the history and importance of the women’s rights movement, as well as how it’s still relevant today.

Hold a credit card, buy a house, or take out a loan in her own name.

Phoebe King Ensminger Burn. That name probably doesn’t sound familiar to you. But on Aug. 18, 1920, Miss Febb, as she was known, might have become the most famous mother, at least in suffrage history.

On this episode of Hindsight, we will dive deeper into the roles that regionalism and race played in the development and evolution of the suffrage movement and in the campaigns to win suffrage state-by-state.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then conflict both presents new challenges and opportunities and requires us to consider what our necessities actually are.

In 1920, the United States ratified the 19th Amendment recognizing women's voting rights. Over the next year, we will explore, commemorate, and celebrate the history of women's suffrage in the United States and discover what role voting played in the social, political, legal, and economic changes of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Seneca Falls.