Voters at Last: Battling for the Ballot 

Men looking in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters in Washington D.C., in 1911 — Photo Credit: Library of Congress

Program Description
This program examines the struggle to extend voting rights to most adult citizens in Delaware and the nation.  Using archival photographs, newspapers, cartoons, letters and speeches the organizing, petitioning, picketing, educating, and politicking that went on is presented in a lively way.

The program picks up the story as debates swirl over whether voting rights should be extended to white males regardless of property ownership. From there it traces history through the extension of the vote to African American men, takes note of the attempt to disenfranchise voters, and concludes with a closer look at the time when vocal suffragist pushed forward a movement to extend the right to women. Special attention is paid to the women’s suffrage movement in Delaware.
Program Audience

• General Audience
• Schools

Program Goal or Focus

Participants discover how various groups fought for an were finally given the right to vote. k here to edit.