PANEL DISCUSSION

VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION

Unfinished Business: What the 19th Amendment Didn't Do
Thursday, October 8, 2020 from 5:00 PM–6:00 PM
Online
Free, but registration required

Moderated by Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan, this virtual panel
discussion explores the struggle for the vote that remained for many
citizens after the passage of the 19th Amendment. Extending the right to
vote to women in 1920 was a milestone in American history, but much work
remained to ensure that all citizens had a fair and equal voice in
governing the country and shaping its policies. Historians Lauranett Lee (a
visiting lecturer in the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of
Leadership Studies) and Megan Taylor-Shockley (an author and former
professor of history at Clemson University) discuss the fundamental
question of citizenship through obstacles that limited suffrage to some
Americans, including the Equal Rights Amendment (first introduced in 1923),
extending citizenship to America’s indigenous peoples, eliminating the poll
tax and literacy tests, and the continuing advocacy for restoration of
rights to felons. This event complements the Library’s exhibitions *We
Demand: Women’s Suffrage in Virginia* and *Unfinished Business.* For more
information, contact Emma Ito at [log in to unmask] or 804.692.3726.
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