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Better Days 2020 – Week 10 – The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, in Maps and Charts
June 1, 2020 Welcome back to Reading Club! For our last week, we’re looking at the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), an essential piece of legislation protecting the rights of people of color who often faced significant obstacles when trying to vote. This Vox article by Dara Lind features 19 different charts and maps […]Read More -
Better Days 2020 Reading Club – Week 9 – The Forgotten Suffragists
May 18, 2020 Welcome back to Reading Club! Up to this point, we have discussed the creative methods women from all walks of life used to gain voting rights, from bicycles to pop culture. Once the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, suffragists wanted to enshrine this important step forward in American history — but […]Read More -
Better Days 2020 Reading Club – Week 8 – Our Democracy and the American Indian
May 11, 2020 A warm welcome back to Better Days 2020 Reading Club! Last week we dove into the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade; this week, we turn to Indigenous activists’ fight for political legitimacy. The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, but many women and men were still ineligible to vote due to racist and […]Read More -
Better Days Reading Club – Week 7 – The 1913 Suffrage Parade
May 4, 2020 The day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) held a parade down Washington, DC’s Pennsylvania Avenue in support of a constitutional women’s suffrage amendment. It was the first large, organized, political march on Washington in U.S. history. The parade was organized by Alice Paul, […]Read More -
Better Days 2020 Reading Club – Week 6: How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect
April 27, 2020 We’ve read five articles together through the Better Days 2020 Reading Club, and we hope you’ve enjoyed all of them so far! We have some great topics planned for the next few weeks, so make sure to stay tuned to our social media for our weekly posts. When we discussed the division […]Read More -
Better Days 2020 Reading Club – Week 5 – From Mannish Radicals to Feminist Heroes: Suffragists in Popular Culture
April 20, 2020 Welcome back to another week of the Better Days 2020 Reading Club! We hope you enjoyed last week’s article on rivalries within the women’ suffrage movement. This week, we’ll be taking a little bit of a different direction. For the this week’s reading club, we’re jumping back in time and looking at […]Read More -
Better Days 2020 Reading Club – Week 4 – Winning the Vote: A Divided Movement brought about the Nineteenth Amendment
April 13, 2020 Welcome to Week Four of the Better Days 2020 Reading Club! We hope you enjoyed last week’s article. This week’s article was written by Dr. Lisa Tetrault, who we read from our very first week about the Seneca Falls Convention. We’ll be learning about the divisions and tensions that arose within the […]Read More -
Better Days Reading Club – Week Three: How the Bicycle Paved the Way for Women’s Rights
April 6, 2020 Welcome back to another week of the Better Days Reading Club! We are really excited about this week’s topic because of its ties to Utah history, but also because it relates to modern women’s rights movements as well. The article we’ll be reading together this week is by Adrienne LaFrance in The […]Read More -
Better Days Reading Club – Week Two: Utah Women Had the Right to Vote Long Before Others, Then Had It Taken Away
March 31, 2020 Welcome to week two of the Better Days Reading Club! We hope you enjoyed the wonderful article from Dr. Tetrault last week, as well as our discussion guide. If you missed it, they’re linked the sources below. This week we’re getting into Utah’s voting history specifically, and it’s something you won’t want […]Read More -
Better Days Reading Club – Week One: The Making of Seneca Falls
March 24, 2020 In light of recent events, we’re launching the Better Days Reading Club as a way to stay more connected and discuss topics we’d planned to explore at events this spring. At the beginning of every week, we’ll dig into an interesting article about the history of women’s voting rights and share a […]Read More