Wisconsin Led the Path to Women’s Suffrage: Interview with WGS Associate Prof. Carolyn Eichner

This year marks the centennial of congressional approval of the U.S. constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.  After Congress passed the amendment in June 1919, Wisconsin was the first state to ratify it a week later. UWM’s own Carolyn Eichner, associate professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, talks about the struggle that led to the 19th Amendment and its legacy.  Read more about it here.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.