S02 E14 Missouri: The Music Beneath the March

About this episode

Cynthia Holmes and Elyssa Ford discuss the suffrage battle in Missouri, highlighting key figures and events.

In this episode, Cynthia Holmes and Elyssa Ford discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Missouri. Virginia and Francis Minor were a St. Louis power couple determined to get votes for women and took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided citizenship did not mean the right to vote. Anna Holland Jones was an African American activist who in August 1915 wrote an article entitled, “Woman Suffrage and Social Reform” in which she asked the question, why should a w...

People in this episode

Host: Cynthia Holmes

Guest: Elyssa Ford

Topics covered

• suffrage
• women's rights
• activism
• history
• Missouri
• African American history

Keywords

• suffrage
• Virginia Minor
• Francis Minor
• Anna Holland Jones
• women's rights
• Missouri
• activism
• U.S. Supreme Court

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. Supreme Court

Places: Missouri, St. Louis

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