On Monday, SDPB, Brian Gevik will present information on the documentary Simple Justice and share an interview with Cathleen D. Cahill about Native American women suffragists. Cahill is an associate professor of history at Penn State University and the author of the forthcoming book “Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement.”

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement In Recasting the Vote, Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina "Nina" Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

As we celebrate the centennial of a great triumph for the women's movement, Cahill's powerful history reminds us of the work that remains.