Conference Session 2 of 5: Marriage and the Amendments
Comment: Kathi Kern, University of Kentucky
This is the second session of the virtual 2020 Conrad E. Wright Research Conference, "'Shall Not Be Denied': The 15th and 19th Amendments at the Sesquicentennial and Centennial of Their Ratifications."
This panel discussion will consider three pre-circulated essays: Helene Quanquin's “Troubling Marriage: Abby Kelley and Stephen S. Foster and the Fifteenth Amendment,” Carol Faulkner's “Suffrage and the Specter of Interracial Marriage,” and Jessica Derleth's “Marital Unity Through the Franchise: Suffragists’ Manipulation of Gender and Marriage Norms.”
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