Women's Hard-Fought Right to Vote

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 14, 2018

Elaine Weiss, journalist and the author of The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking, 2018), talks about the fault lines exposed by the battle for the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote (not ratified until 1920), its intersection with race and class, and how it continues to reverberate.

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