Posts Tagged ‘women’s suffrage’
Episode 1: New Mexico’s Road to the Vote
The American Southwest played a key role in the woman suffrage battle, as Western states led the charge to ratify the 19th Amendment. New Mexico’s fight to ensure women the right to vote, however, had a much different trajectory. After the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the United States took over the territory once belonging…
Read More“American Experience: The Vote” / Local Leaders on Women Winning Voting Rights
July 3, 2020 – As part of an online preview screening this week of the PBS program “American Experience: The Vote,” correspondent Megan Kamerick led a conversation about the history of women’s suffrage in New Mexico. Here, NMiF excerpts a portion of that discussion, which can be seen in its entirety on Facebook. Kamerick is…
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