S02 E11 Maine: From Muddy Roads to Voting Booths

About this episode

Anne Gass discusses the suffrage struggle and key activists in Maine's voting rights campaign.

In this episode, Anne Gass, independent historian and author, discusses the suffrage struggle at sites in Maine. We talk about the events and activists in the ME voting rights campaign: Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a suffrage leader who traveled to D.C. to picket at the White House.Mabel Derricks, Edith Johnson, and Blanche Dymond–members of the Black community in Bangor–signed a petition in 1917 advocating for women’s suffrage.Lucy Nicolar Poolaw of the Penobscot nation combined her music...

People in this episode

Guest: Anne Gass

Topics covered

• suffrage
• voting rights
• Maine history
• activism
• women's rights

Keywords

• suffrage
• Maine
• voting rights
• activists
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Maine, D.C.

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