S02 E14 Missouri: The Music Beneath the March

In this episode, Cynthia Holmes and Elyssa Ford discuss the suffrage battle at sites in Missouri. Virginia and Francis Minor were a St. Louis power couple determined to get votes for women and took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided citizenship did not mean the right to vote. Anna Holland Jones was an African American activist who in August 1915 wrote an article entitled, “Woman Suffrage and Social Reform” in which she asked the question, why should a w...