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Join local professor and historian, Kathleen Feeley, in an exploration of the people and events leading up to women's suffrage.
100 Years of Women's Suffrage with Dr. Kathleen Feeley
2020: The Year of the Woman
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in all states after many years of advocacy and struggle. Join University of Redlands history professor Kathleen Feeley as she discusses the suffragists’ long fight for women’s right to vote and the events that led to the passing of the 19th Amendment both here in Redlands and across the country.
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Feeley is a University of Redlands history professor. She is director of the interdisciplinary honors program at U of R. Her teaching and research focus on media, gender and popular and political culture in modern America.
She has co-edited a book about the role of gossip in public discourse. She is co-coordinator of the Los Angeles & Metro Studies Group of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Dr. Kathleen Feeley is a well-known history professor and public speaker specializing in gender, media, political culture, and popular culture. She has appeared as a commentator on CSpan American History TV, and A&E Network’s Biography series. She is the author of "Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman" (Westview Press, 2016).
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This event is Free and Open to the Public
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Hosted by AK Smiley Library, Friends of AK Smiley Library and the City of Redlands
