OLLI0029 - U.S. History from the Women’s Perspective: A March Toward Equal Rights

Course Description

In August 2020, Tennessee and the nation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave American women the right to vote. This course will be an overview of United States history that examines the many steps that women made from the founding of our country to the dramatic moment when the Tennessee General Assembly ratified the amendment, making Tennessee the deciding state. It will then analyze the impact that the women’s vote actually made and the reasons why achieving true equality under the law proved so difficult to achieve. It will address the struggles that women have had in the long march for equality and will culminate with the Equal Rights Amendment that failed to be ratified as well as the progress that women have made in recent years in the political arena and in almost every facet of American life.