San Francisco State proudly presents its annual Constitution and Citizenship Day conference. This year, we mark the centennial of the 19th amendment with a virtual project titled: “The Unfinished Work of Suffrage.” Pre-recorded sessions include two keynote presentations by Rabia Belt (Stanford) and Ellen DuBois (UCLA) and seven roundtables featuring nearly thirty scholars from eleven different universities. Topics include race, disability, religion, labor, transnational activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, and contemporary conversations about gender in the pandemic and the current presidential race.
Constitution Day Welcome
Keynotes
Rabia Belt (Stanford)
Professor Belt addresses the intersection of disability and race in the campaign for women’s suffrage. This 45-minute keynote lecture is followed by a 45-minute conversation among the roundtable participants (second video will autoplay).
Roundtable participants: Marc Stein (SFSU - History), Susan Burch (Middlebury)
Ellen DuBois (UCLA)
Professor DuBois shares “surprising facts about suffrage” in her 45-minute keynote followed by a 45-minute conversation with the roundtable participants about the 19th Amendment centennial (all one video).
Roundtable participants: Sue Englander (SFSU - History), Sherry Katz (SFSU - History), Judy Wu (UC-Irvine)
Interviews
Katherine Marino (UCLA)
Professor Marino answers questions from Dr. Aguirre about the transnational suffrage movement, specifically the pioneering leadership of Latin American feminists in the interwar period. Topics include the inclusion of women’s rights within early articulations of human rights as well as the calls by these women to include anti-colonial and anti-racist frameworks in feminist campaigns. Also discussed is the relevance of feminism to the Chicano movement of the 1960s and immigrant communities today.
Participants: Michael Aguirre (postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Inequality in America Initiative and University Nevada-Reno)
Mona Siegel (Sacramento State)
Professor Siegel discusses her book: Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights. Their discussion addresses the activism of women in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America immediately following WWI. Their vision was one based not only on the sovereignty of independent states but also the fundamental humanity and equality of all people.
Participants: Sarah Curtis (SFSU - History)
Melissa R Klapper (Rowan University)
Professor Klapper discusses her work about Jewish American political activism, particularly suffrage, birth control, and peace work in the years before WWII. Topics discussed include unions, immigration, and religion in the early 20th century.
Participants: Rachel Gross (SFSU - Jewish Studies)
Tracey Deutsch (University of Minnesota)
Professor Deutsch highlights the demands by female consumers to recognize and regulate the labor of consumerism in this interview. Topics addressed include the gendering of poverty, unions, early consumer rights organizations, mutual aid societies, and the future of grocery stores.
Participants: Kelsey Sims (SFSU graduate)
Gill Frank (University of Virginia) + Kacey Calahane (UC-Irvine)
Gill Frank and Kacey Calahane discuss the women’s liberation movement and the gay liberation movement, the opposition by conservative evangelicals and their connection to pro-segregation forces as well as Hulu’s Mrs. America series.
Roundtable
Kamala Harris, VP pick
Participants discuss Kamala Harris’s historic VP candidacy, the racist, misogynist, and xenophobic backlash she has faced, and the context of the long Black freedom movement, including Black Lives Matter.
Participants: Mario Burrus (SFSU graduate), Rebecca Eissler (SFSU - Political Science), Amanda Roberti (SFSU - Political Science), Anantha Sudhakar (SFSU - Asian American Studies)
Gender, Race + Labor During the Pandemic
Panelists discuss how the pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on women, specifically women of color and undocumented women. Issues discussed include the so-called “she-cession,” women as unprotected frontline workers, gig workers, and domestic workers, and the long-term toll on the careers of women caretaking for family members.
Participants: Valerie Francisco (SFSU - Sociology), Karen Hossfeld (SFSU - Sociology), Julietta Hua (SFSU - Women & Gender Studies)
Program Resources
- Rabia Belt (Stanford)
- Susan Burch (Middlebury)
- Marc Stein (San Francisco State University)
- Ellen Carol Dubois (UCLA)
- Sue Englander (San Francisco State University)
- Sherry Katz (San Francisco State University)
- Judy Wu (UC Irvine)
- Katherine Marino (UCLA)
- Michael Aguirre (Harvard + University of Nevada, Reno)
- Mona Siegel (Sacramento State University)
- Sarah Curtis (San Francisco State University)
- Melissa R. Klapper (Rowan University)
- Rachel Gross (San Francisco State University)
- Tracey Deutsch (University of Minnesota)
- Kacey Calahane (UC Irvine)
- Gillian Frank (University of Virginia)
- Rebecca Eissler (San Francisco State University)
- Amanda Roberti (San Francisco State University)
- Anantha Sudhakar (San Francisco State University)
- Mario Burrus (San Francisco State University)
- Valerie Francisco (San Francisco State University)
- Karen Hossfeld (San Francisco State University)
- Julietta Hua (San Francisco State University)
- Sarah Crabtree (San Francisco State University)
- National Women's History Museum
- 2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative
- Shall Not be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote
- Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
- 2020 Centennial Online Exhibit
- Votes for Women
- Suffrage March Centennial Anniversary Online Exhibition
- "You Have to Start a Thing"
- California Women Suffrage 1870-1911
- Women's Vote Centennial
- How Will They Know We Were Here?: 100 Years Beyond Women's Suffrage
- #SquadGoals (Social Media Interaction Site)
- League of Women Voters
- Suffragist of the Month
- Women Leading the Way
- California and the 19th Amendment
- A Centennial Celebration: California Women and the Vote
- Suffragist Oral History Project
- Women at Cal: When California Passed the Women Suffrage Amendment
- Women Win the Vote in California and the Country: A Centennial 1920-2020
- The Suffrage Movement in Glen Park: Backstory to the First March for Suffrage in America
- From Suffrage to #MeToo
- Century of Women's Progress Quilt Challenge: 1920-2020
- Fight for the Right: 100 Years of Women Voting
- On the Road to Ratification
- Women Who Dare
- Hella Feminist: An Exhibition
- African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
- African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920
- After the Vote was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists (from McFarland Publishing)
- American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965
- Finish the Fight: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought For the Right to Vote
- For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinos, 1877-1932
- Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
- Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
- Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
- Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
- Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
- Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Suffrage Question
- Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
- The Myth at Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement 1848-1898
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
- Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought For the Right to Vote
- Five Steps Colleges Must Take To Protect Student Voting
- California Online Voter Registration
- California Secretary of State: Check Your Voter Registration Status
- California Secretary of State: Vote By Mail - November 3, 2020, General Election
- H.R.4 - Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019
- California Secretary of State: Poll Worker Information
- Census 2020: Responding to the Census
- Tell Congress: Defend Our Post Office
- Domestic Work Dignity Council
- The Center for American Women and Politics
- Asian and Pacific Islander American vote
- South Asian Americans Leading Together
- Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
- Causa Justa
- Anti-Police Terror Project
- People's Breakfast Oakland
- East Oakland Collective
- Arab Resource and Organizing Project
- Poor People's Campaign
- Dream Defenders
More suggestions? Email Professor Crabtree at slc123@sfsu.edu