Suffrage Panel with Bill Haltom and Laura Kumin

Suffrage Panel with Bill Haltom and Laura Kumin

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Bill Haltom

Why Can't Mother Vote? Joseph Hanover and the Unfinished
Business of Democracy

This is the story of Joseph Hanover, an unsung hero of the fight for women’s suffrage, 100 years ago this summer. Hanover, an Orthodox Jew, had fled Poland in 1895 to escape the Czar of Russia and the pogroms. This immigrant and his family found a new life in Memphis, Tennessee. As a young new citizen of the United States, he read the Constitution and became deeply patriotic about his new homeland. But he could not understand why the rights set forth in the Constitution were not extended to all Americans. He asked his parents, “Why can’t Mother Vote?" He went to night law school, became a lawyer, and was elected to the Tennessee Legislature. There, in August of 1920, he led the successful fight for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. It passed the Tennessee Legislature by one vote, making Tennessee the 36th and deciding state to ratify the Amendment, making it the law of the land.

Laura Kumin

All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote

In honor of the centenary of the 19th amendment, a delectable new book that reveals a new side to the history of the suffrage movement. We all likely conjure up a similar image of the women’s suffrage movement: picket signs, red carnations, militant marches through the streets. But was it only these rallies that gained women the exposure and power that led them to the vote? Ever-courageous and creative suffragists also carried their radical message into America’s homes wrapped in food wisdom through cookbooks, which ingenuously packaged political strategy into already existent social communities. These cookbooks gave suffragists a chance to reach out to women on their own terms in nonthreatening and accessible ways. Cooking together, feeding people, and using social situations to put people at ease were pioneering grassroots tactics that leveraged the domestic knowledge these women already had, feeding spoonfuls of suffrage to communities through unexpected and unassuming channels. Filled with charm and wit and actual historic recipes (“mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves using no sarcasm especially with the upper crust”) that evoke the spirited flavor of feminism and food movements, All Stirred Up reactivates the taste of an era and carries us back through time to when women enfranchised themselves through the subversive and savvy power of the palate.

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