Knowledge Base

In this episode of Conversations over Cafecito, we meet with Dr. Cathleen D. Cahill, Associate Professor of History at Penn State to discuss her book, Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, a collective biography of six suffragists of color–both before and after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. 

What to learn more? Check out this reading list provided by Dr. Cahill:

Dr. Cahill’s Books

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement 

Federal Fathers & Mothers: A Social History of the US Indian Service, 1869-1933

Book Recommendations

How Black Women Broke Barriers and Won the Vote, Martha Jones, Vanguard

Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist, Cynthia Orozco, Agent for Change: Adela Sloss-Vento,

Feminism for the Americas, Katherine Marino

Websites

Representation with a Hyphen; Latinas in the Fight for Women’s Suffrage, Digital Exhibit by the National Women’s History Museum

On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote

 Podcasts

And Nothing Less (hosted by Rosario Dawson and Retta)

New Mexico and the Vote