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Sep 2020
25m 4s

Sister Suffragette

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It wasn’t just the United States -- women around the world were fighting for their voting rights, and they weren’t so polite about it. Pictured with this episode is Alice Paul, who learned from suffragists in Britain, and brought some of their techniques back home.

For more on the people and stories mentioned in this episode, visit go.nps.gov/suffragepodcasts.

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