In this installment of "Freedom train tales," Dr. Willis Dunbar discusses the circumstances surrounding the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Dunbar describes the first women's rights convention that launched the women's rights movement and how the expansion of employment opportunities for women helped it gain steam. He examines how various civil rights cases, protests, newspaper editorials, rallies, and the civil war helped shaped the movement. He suggests that the continued efforts during World War I helped their efforts while headline grabbing actions by more militant groups like the National Women's Party may have hindered it.
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