Rose Schneiderman, Women's Suffrage, and the Lower East Side: A Virtual Talk

Celebrate Women’s Suffrage - and LES Icon Rose Schneiderman - with LESPI! August marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, won by multitudes of suffragists who galvanized the American public with their pioneering activist strategies. Firebrand Rose Schneiderman and her Lower East Side comrades brought trade union tactics and class consciousness to the national women’s suffrage movement. Suffrage historian extraordinaire Susan Ware—consultant to PBS documentaries and Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library—celebrates that heterogeneous combustion of energy in her recent book, "Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote." Please join LESPI for a Zoom book talk with Dr. Ware, who will discuss Rose Schneiderman—and the startling breadth and diversity of the movement that won women the vote.