And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote Podcast
1) The Cult of True Womanhood
To understand what the suffragists were up against, we have to look at why men -- and even some other women -- didn’t want women to have the right to vote at all. For more on the people and stories m...Show More
2) New! The Agitators: The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
And Nothing Less listeners, you’ve heard Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony’s stories from a historical perspective. Now, get to know them as people in this play-turned-podcast about their 40-yea...Show More
3) Failure is Impossible
The episode title is a line from a speech Susan B. Anthony gave a few months before she died in 1906; she didn’t live to see the 19th amendment added to the Constitution in 1920. But the 19th amendmen...Show More
4) Southern Discomfort
Suffragists needed three-fourths of the states on board to get victory for the whole country. But that meant winning over the south, where zero states were in. Pictured with this episode: Carrie Chapm...Show More
5) Sister Suffragette
It wasn’t just the United States -- women around the world were fighting for their voting rights, and they weren’t so polite about it. Pictured with this episode is Alice Paul, who learned from suffra...Show More
6) Suffrage in Translation
From New Mexico to New York, there were women separated by language, culture, religion, and citizenship, but united by a desire for equality. Pictured with this episode: Mabel Lee was a Chinese immigr...Show More
7) Truth is of No Color
This is more than a story about women’s rights. It’s a story about civil rights. And women like Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, our pictured suffragist this week, understood that the suffrage fi...Show More
8) Myths & Legends
Susan B. Anthony invented women’s suffrage, right? At least that feels like we were taught in school. The truth is much more complicated: Native American women had rights long before white settlers ar...Show More
9) Coming August 5th: And Nothing Less
Subscribe now. Rosario Dawson and Retta trace the untold stories of women’s fight for the vote.