Mississippi Public Broadcasting and the League of Women Voters of Mississippi worked together to produce and curate a series of short video segments celebrating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.
Beginning September 13, each of these one-minute long announcements will air on MPB Television and MPB Radio in between programming, with a new topic outlining women’s suffrage in Mississippi added each week. These informative clips feature facts and context about the 19th Amendment in Mississippi, delivered by some of the state’s most influential women.
The 10 segments cover subjects ranging from when women were first granted voting rights by the 19th Amendment to the founding of the League of Women Voters and its expansion. Hosts include activists, historians, organizers and trailblazers such as Flonzie Brown Wright, the first African-American woman elected official in post-Reconstruction Mississippi.
The announcements will air until the end of the year and will also be featured on MPB’s social media channels @MPBOnline. This project was funded by the Mississippi Humanities Council.
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