Episode 156: Dr. Thomas Dublin

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>They were women and they fought for the right to vote. Beyond that, every person documented in the <a href= "https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement</a> in the United States has a different story to tell.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Dr. Thomas Dublin and a crowdsourced team of volunteers have worked diligently to collect those stories. The Dictionary, a free online resource, is a searchable database of biographical sketches telling the life story of three groups of women:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --></p> <ul> <li>Black women suffragists - many of whom migrated out of the South to find more opportunities yet were not always embraced by the wider suffrage movement.</li> <li>Members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) - the mainstream organization of the movement with thousands of members working across every state.</li> <li>Members of the National Womans Party (NWP) - formed by women impatient with the strategies and pace of change under NAWSA.</li> </ul> <p><!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Dr. Dublin describes what it took to pull this database of materials together. A network of volunteers including historians, librarians, genealogists, and students combed through local newspapers, public records, and various primary and secondary sources. What emerged was a series of biographies that document the many faces of women in the movement in the late 19th and early 20th century.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><strong>Further Research</strong></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank" rel= "no