Conference Session 1 of 5: Biographies of Suffrage Champions

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Join us for the opening session of the virtual 2020 Conrad E. Wright Research Conference, "'Shall Not Be Denied': The 15th and 19th Amendments at the Sesquicentennial and Centennial of Their Ratifications." MHS President Catherine Allgor will give opening remarks at 2:00pm

The first of five conference sessions, "Biographies of Suffrage Champions" will begin at 2:30pm. This panel discussion will consider three pre-circulated essays: Ellen DuBois's “Frederick Douglass & Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” Thomas Dublin's “The Changing Shape of the Black Women Suffrage Movement, 1870-1920," and N. Lynn Eckhert's “The Role of African American and Women Physicians in Voting Rights in America.”

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