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Four Seasons Books and the Byrd Center present:
Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality 1920-2020 with Dr. Elisabeth Griffith
Thursday, January 26 at 7:00 pm
Byrd Center Auditorium and Virtually
Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights.
In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women’s movement mirrors America. Both engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue their foremothers’ fights to achieve equality for all.
