Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement (November 2020) is a collective biography of six suffragists of color that encourages us to expand our understanding of who fought for the vote and why.
Author: Cathleen D. Cahill
Cathleen D. Cahill is an associate professor of history at Penn State University. She is a social historian who explores the everyday experiences of ordinary people, primarily women. She also serves on the advisory committee for the national Votes for Women Trail and is the steering committee chair of the Coalition for Western Women's History.
Suffrage in Spanish: Hispanic Women and the Fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico
New Mexico’s Hispanic women’s advocacy of suffrage and their work with the National Woman’s Party reminds us that Spanish was also a language of suffrage. Armed with economic security and the political clout of long-established Spanish-speaking families, New Mexico’s Hispanic women represented a formidable political force.