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Utah’s original settlers have had a long struggle for equal rights before the law in the United States. Host Dianna Douglas introduces some of the Uta...
Zion's Suffragists
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Women in Utah started voting way back in 1870 as part of a grassroots uprising that was both unique and radical. The story of how Utah women became the first to vote in America begins with polygamy and ends long after the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed American women the freedom to vote. Host Dianna Douglas narrates a long-forgotten history.
No Sacrifice is Too Great
Utah women joined forces with a young suffragist named Alice Paul and jumpstarted the drive for suffrage with some spectacular events. A mile-long pet...
She is the Better Man
A state senate race for the ages: a young doctor named Martha Hughes Cannon runs in a crowded field to join the very first Senate in the state of Utah...
Woman Will Be Restored
Going into the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, Utah women were fighting against the stereotypes of polygamous country bumpkin wives. Coming out of th...
A Woman’s Rights Woman
Utah women were the first in the nation to vote. Their voting rights were under constant threat, however, from people who weren't happy that polygamy ...
It Is Our Duty to Vote, Sisters
Utah women gave a collective shrug when they first heard of a movement in New York to let women vote. But when the federal government began to attack ...
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Host Dianna Douglas introduces Zion's Suffragists, a six-episode podcast about how Utah women won the vote in the late 1800s, and pushed the country t...