Conference Session 3 of 5: The Federal Government and Voting Rights in States and Across the Empire

This is the third 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: Silvana R. Siddali's “African American Suffrage, Western State Constitutions, and the Fifteenth Amendment,” Sunu Kodumthara's “Oklahoma, the 19th Amendment, and the ‘Threat’ of Racial Equality,” and Laura R. Prieto's “Still Subjects, Not Sovereigns: The Nineteenth Amendment and American Empire in the Philippines.”

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