When women finally secured the right to vote in 1920 after a generations-long fight known as the Women's Suffrage movement, women did not receive the responsibility and opportunity for service via jury duty. Sara A. Whitehurst of Baltimore led the Maryland Committee for Jury Service, an umbrella group of 30 women's groups and advocated for the final passage of the law that allowed women on a federal jury in 1947. Join us for this episode of Ballot & Beyond to learn more about the post-Suffrage fight that allowed women to be considered the peers of men in the eyes of the law.
Mrs. Edward H. Harris, Sr. | Suffragist By Any Name
Sadie Jacobs Crockin | Visionary Jewish Suffragist
Ellen Newbold La Motte | Activist & Adventurer
Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray | The Will To Thrive
Laura Byrne | Serving Suffrage With A Smile
Emilie Doetsch | Lawyer & Journalist
Catherine Sweet | Foiled Early Voter
Edith Houghton Hooker | Dynamic Suffrage Driver
Margaret Brent | Colonial Suffragist
Billie Holiday | Voice of Protest
Mary Risteau | Early Elected State Delegate
DuBois Circle | Inspired Fighting Against Injustice
Florence & Bertha Trail | Sisters in the Struggle
Madeleine Ellicott | By Women, For Women
Quaker Women of Sandy Spring | Education & Equality
Dr. Lillian Welsh | Academic Voice for Suffrage
Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist & Suffragist
Mary Pickersgill | Star-Spangled Seamstress
Margaret Briggs Gregory Hawkins | Education is Power
Lilian Reeves Crawford | Local Suffrage Leader
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