Speaker: Dr. Catherine Biba, Associate Professor of History at Hastings College

When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 granting women the right to vote across the country, it marked a momentous expansion of American participatory democracy. But the battle to get to this point was long, contentious, and complicated; and it looked different in every state in the country. Find out how Nebraskans fought for (and against) women’s right to vote, and how they responded when suffrage finally arrived.

(Concurrent session with “Japanese Americans in Nebraska“)