S02 E12 Arizona: Creating Coalitions and Continuing Legacies

About this episode

Mary Melcher and Melanie Sturgeon discuss the suffrage battle and key activists in Arizona's voting rights campaign.

In this episode, Mary Melcher and Melanie Sturgeon discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Arizona. We talk about the events and activists in the AZ voting rights campaign: Frances Willard Munds, suffragist leader, who said that it made her “blood boil” when women were told to stay in their domestic sphere and not get involved with voting.Sallie Davis Hayden passed on her convictions for women’s suffrage to her son, Carl Hayden, who voted for the 19th amendment as a U.S. congressman.Mary Kan...

People in this episode

Host: Mary Melcher

Guest: Melanie Sturgeon

Topics covered

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

Keywords

• suffrage
• Arizona
• Frances Willard Munds
• Carl Hayden
• women's rights
• activism
• voting rights

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 19th amendment

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