The Genius of Liberty

Episode 26 - Let Ohio Women Vote

In her artwork for the 1912 woman suffrage campaign, Cornelia Cassidy Davis asked male voters to extend voting rights to women.

Episode 25 - The Marriage Under Protest of Lucy Stone

After more than a year of long-distance wooing, Mercantile Library member Henry Blackwell finally persuaded Lucy Stone to wed.

Episode 24 - The Power of an Idea

Cincinnati's Reverend Herbert S. Bigelow included a stop at the National American Woman Suffrage Association's annual convention as part of his 1906 campaign for initiative and referendum, which he believed would empower citizens to enact progressive reforms.

Episode 23 - "God gives rights, demands duties"

Elizabeth Wilson of Cadiz, Ohio, published her bold vision of faithful feminism in A Scriptural View of Woman's Rights and Duties in 1849, blazing the path followed decades later by Matilda Joslyn Gage's Woman, Church, and State and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Woman's Bible.

Episode 22 - Saving Suffrage for the Nation

Cincinnatians George S. Hawke, John Druffel, and Lawrence Maxwell waged an eleventh-hour legal battle regarding Ohio's June 1919 ratification of the 19th amendment. The decision by the US Supreme Court a year later sided with Hawke, clearing legal hurdles that made it possible for Tennessee to ratify the 19th amendment, making it the law of the land.