February 8, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of Vermont's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. Our state was not among the required 36 states that ratified this Amendment so that it became the law of the land, and whose centennial we celebrated this past August.

What is the backstory behind Vermont's absence from the path breaking first 36 states? At 12:15 p.m. on February 8, 2021, during the Across the Fence television show on WCAX TV, Fran Stoddard explores this history with League Board member and historian, Marilyn Blackwell and Sandra Dooley, Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance Executive Committee member.

Learn why Vermont's ratification came five months after that of Tennessee, the requisite 36th that put the 72-year suffrage movement over the finish line; how Edna Beard took the first opportunity for women to seek office in Vermont's legislature and won; and the ways in which pioneering Vermont suffragists, Clarina Howard Nichols and Lucy Daniels, moved the epic struggle to expand voting rights forward.

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