Utah’s original settlers have had a long struggle for equal rights before the law in the United States. Host Dianna Douglas introduces some of the Utah women who led the charge. Zitkála-Šá was an early pioneer for voting rights and civil rights

No Sacrifice is Too Great

Feb 10th, 2020 18m 31s

Utah women joined forces with a young suffragist named Alice Paul and jumpstarted the drive for suffrage with some spectacular events. A mile-long petition. The biggest parade Washington had ever seen. And, controversially, pickets and protests

She is the Better Man

Feb 3rd, 2020 18m 22s

A state senate race for the ages: a young doctor named Martha Hughes Cannon runs in a crowded field to join the very first Senate in the state of Utah. She runs against her husband, Angus, against Utah’s preeminent suffragist, Emmeline B. Wells

Woman Will Be Restored

Jan 27th, 2020 20m 20s

Going into the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, Utah women were fighting against the stereotypes of polygamous country bumpkin wives. Coming out of the fair, they were hailed as some of “the brightest exponents of woman’s cause in the United St

A Woman’s Rights Woman

Jan 20th, 2020 19m 2s

Utah women were the first in the nation to vote. Their voting rights were under constant threat, however, from people who weren't happy that polygamy persisted in Utah, or who felt that voting was degrading to women. Host Dianna Douglas shares

It Is Our Duty to Vote, Sisters

Jan 13th, 2020 21m 37s

Utah women gave a collective shrug when they first heard of a movement in New York to let women vote. But when the federal government began to attack polygamy, Utah women knew they needed a voice. Host Dianna Douglas recreates some of the mass

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Dec 6th, 2019 2m

Host Dianna Douglas introduces Zion's Suffragists, a six-episode podcast about how Utah women won the vote in the late 1800s, and pushed the country toward women’s suffrage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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