Voting Matters: Origin Stories: Keynote Address (1848)

Date: 

Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 4:00pm

Location: 

Online—Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Join the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for the beginning of the series Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th Amendment with a keynote address by the historian Martha S. Jones, who will root the generations-long movement for women’s suffrage in the activism of African American women from the 1830s. Jones will explore the tangled intersections of gender and race in the battle for the ballot while considering the evolution of birthright citizenship, more broadly, as itself a gendered origins story about constituting the American people.

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