She Votes! — Susan B. Anthony and “voting while female”

This week, we’re excited to bring you an episode from She Votes!, a new podcast from the Wonder Media Network about the fight for women’s suffrage as we approach the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. This episode examines the arrest, trial, and conviction of suffragist Susan B. Anthony for the crime of “voting while […]

This week, we’re excited to bring you an episode from She Votes!, a new podcast from the Wonder Media Network about the fight for women’s suffrage as we approach the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

This episode examines the arrest, trial, and conviction of suffragist Susan B. Anthony for the crime of “voting while female.” Rather than sitting on her heels, Anthony launched a campaign to raise awareness about voting rights for women that would set the stage for the next 50 years of work through the passage of the 19th Amendment.

You might be familiar with parts of this story, but you’ve never heard it quite like this — Anthony is voiced by actress Christine Braranski in this episode.

She Votes! is hosted by Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe and founder of The Conversation Project, and Lynn Sherr, a longtime correspondent for ABC News and author of “Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words.”

The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment is coming up at the end of August and we’re planning an episode of Democracy Works on a century women’s voting on August 24.

You can find more episodes of She Votes at shevotespodcast.com or in any podcast app. Thank you to the Wonder Media Network for sharing this episode with us.