University Showcase 3/20, 8a: This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the United States.
But for women in the Wyoming Territory that right came in 1869. On this episode, we explore the history of women's suffrage in the West and in New Mexico.
We talk about the long, strange trip that resulted in women in Wyoming being enfranchised so early and why that was deeply intertwined with race and colonization with , distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico.
Also we talk about how women鈥檚 suffrage played out in New Mexico and how Hispanic women played a key role in that change with . She鈥檚 a library information specialist with the College of University Libraries and Learning Services and she鈥檚 one of several researchers who created an exhibit at Zimmerman Library on suffrage in New Mexico.
Because of the corona virus pandemic, the library and exhibit are currently closed, but a digital humanities project, explores women's history in New Mexico. That includes in the state, and .
