When democracy at last included women

From the perspective of 2005, it’s difficult to comprehend how it could take 72 years to win the battle for women’s suffrage in the United States. Even Eleanor Clift was surprised at how little she knew about that fight before she began writing her book “Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment.” Yet the amendment’s 1920 passage, Clift has noted, was “the greatest expansion of democracy in a single day that the world has ever seen.” Clift, a Newsweek columnist and TV pundit, will talk about this and more at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Wichita State University’s Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 29th Street North and Oliver. To better understand this episode in American history is to better value the precious power to vote.
Posted by Rhonda Holman