Southeastern to host panel discussion on Women's Suffrage
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – As part of a year-long commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of
Women’s Suffrage in America, Southeastern Louisiana University’s Centennial Women’s
Suffrage Project is partnering with the National Women’s History Museum to produce
an interdisciplinary panel discussion titled “Determined to Rise: The Civil War and
Beyond, Women’s Suffrage and the Women’s Movement.” The discussion is scheduled Wednesday,
Oct. 30, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., at the Student Union Theatre and is free and open
to the public.
Co-sponsored by Southeastern’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
the College of Education, Department of History & Political Science, Multicultural
and International Student Affairs and Sims Memorial Library, the panel discussion
will be moderated by Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Samantha
Cavell. The discussion will look at how the Civil War era affected the Women’s Movement
and early calls for voting rights in the South.
Experts from Boston and Washington, D.C. will join local scholars to discuss
topics related to the development of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, said Cavell.
“Dr. Liz Eberlein of the National Women’s History Museum and Professor Alecia
Long of Louisiana State University bring the historical perspective, while Dr. Benjamin
Railton, professor of English at Fitchburg State University, and Dr. Elizabeth Hornsby
of the Southeastern Communication and Media Studies Department add cultural context
to the long and contentious story of our path to the 19th Amendment,” said Cavell.
“The floor will be open to audience questions and comments.”
“There is so much in the historical struggle for women’s voting rights that is
relevant today,” explained Cavell. “Issues of race, gender, disenfranchisement, and
marginalization of populations are still central to the discussion of citizenship
and representation. We hope that students and everyone will come out not only to hear
the discussion, but to be a part of it.”
For more information, contact Cavell at samantha.cavell@southeastern.edu.
