Women On Top: The Untold History of Women's Suffrage

August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of women getting the vote. We have been taught that on August 26, the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteed all women the right to vote. Beginning in the 1800’s women organized, petitioned and picketed to win the right to vote. The amendment was introduced in 1878 but not passed until 1920. To this day, we are still not teaching the whole story. The suffrage movement was fraught with racism, from who is left out of our history of women’s suffrage to those who still didn’t have the vote until decades later. The history of suffrage often leaves out the extraordinary work of women of color, most especially Black and Brown women suffragists. And, there is no mention that “all women” did not include the right to vote for Native American Women. Watch this special-edition Women On Top event, of the Untold Story of Women’s Suffrage. MODERATOR Alicia Crank, Chief Development Officer, AtWork! PANELISTS Sally Clark, Director of Regional and Community Outreach, University of Washington Colleen Echohawk, Executive Director of Chief Seattle Club LaNesha Debardelaben, Executive Director of Northwest African American Museum