Women's Suffrage: About More Than The Vote! (OOL)
Osher Online | Available (Membership Required)
From the earliest days of colonization, the US legal system denied women many rights. Because voting was not part of European tradition, early women’s rights advocates focused primarily on property and legal rights. As voting rights were extended to formerly enslaved people, the women’s movement broadened its goals. In this course, we will examine the well-known and lesser-known advocates who led the decadeslong struggle for women’s rights and the tactics they used to advance equality.
Class schedule: Live lectures will take place at 2:00 pm on Tuesdays, 1/26/2027 through 3/2/2027, via ZOOM.
Each live session is 90 minutes
Tuesday, January 26
Tuesday, February 2
Tuesday, February 9
Tuesday, February 16
Tuesday, February 23
Tuesday, March 12
As this class is delivered by the National Resource Center for OLLIs (NRC) at Northwestern University, you will receive a welcome email from osheronline@northwestern.edu. The email will include your credentials (username & password) as well as a hyperlink to the Osher Online Website through which you will access your course website.
Please save the link once you receive it. Multi-session courses will use this same link each week.
Diana Carlin
Diana Carlin, PhD is Professor Emerita of communication at Saint Louis University. She teaches courses on and written about First Ladies for 30 years and is the co-author of U.S. First Ladies: Making History and Leaving
Legacies and Remember the First Ladies: America's History-Making Women. Carlin has also published articles and book chapters on a variety of First Ladies and researches and writes on the topics of women in politics,
presidential communication, and political debate.