And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote

PRX

"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.” Written by suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s rights activists used this rallying cry to demand voting equality. But the suffrage movement included far more voices and perspectives than these two well-known names: throughout the fight for women’s right to vote, generations of diverse activists demanded full access to the ballot box. Hosts Rosario Dawson and Retta guide us through this seven-part series, bringing us the stories we didn’t learn in our history books.

And Nothing Less is a production of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, the National Park Service, and PRX. It is the official podcast commemorating 100 years of the 19th Amendment and women's constitutional right to vote.

3hr 27min

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Don't miss this new play-turned-podcast.

November 24, 20203min 59sec4.8 MB

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To understand what the suffragists were up against, we have to look at why men -- and even some other women -- didn’t want women to have the right to vote at all.

August 5, 202034min 5sec65.47 MB

Susan B. Anthony invented women’s suffrage, right? At least that feels like we were taught in school. The truth is much more complicated.

August 12, 202027min 58sec53.7 MB

This is more than a story about women’s rights. It’s a story about civil rights. And women like Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell understood that the suffrage fight was as much about race as it was gender.

August 19, 202027min 43sec53.23 MB

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From New Mexico to New York, there were women separated by language, culture, religion, and citizenship, but united by a desire for equality.

August 26, 202029min 52sec57.35 MB

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.

September 2, 202025min 4sec48.14 MB

Suffragists needed three-fourths of the states on board to get victory for the whole country. But that meant winning over the south, where zero states were in. Pictured with this episode: Carrie Chapman Catt, who came to Nashville to manage the strategy on the ground.

September 9, 202030min 25sec58.43 MB

The episode title is a line from a speech Susan B. Anthony gave a few months before she died in 1906; she didn’t live to see the 19th amendment added to the Constitution in 1920. But the 19th amendment wasn’t -- and isn’t -- the end of the voting rights story. Pictured with this episode: Zitkala-Sa, who fought for Native Americans' right to vote after 1920.

September 16, 202024min 27sec46.95 MB

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Subscribe now. Rosario Dawson and Retta trace the untold stories of women’s fight for the vote.

July 29, 20203min 4sec5.91 MB

Sister Suffragette

September 2, 202025min 4sec

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.