Historian Mandy Cooper to examine women’s suffrage in Asheboro library talk

Dr. Mandy Cooper

ASHEBORO – On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, and women achieved the long-fought-for right to vote.

For the amendment’s 100th anniversary, UNC-Greensboro lecturer Dr. Mandy L. Cooper will re-examine the fight for women’s suffrage in “Votes for Women: The Nineteenth  Amendment at 100,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at the Asheboro Public Library.

Her talk, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

Although she firmly places the amendment at the center of American’s long and continued fight for suffrage, she also notes that some women in the United States already had the right to vote — and others would continue fighting for it for decades.

Cooper is a Lecturer of Women’s and Gender History at UNCG. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Duke University.

She is currently at work on a book project, Bonds of Affection: Business and Politics in the National Family, which explores the relationship between emotional family bonds and the development of the U.S. economy and governing institutions from the Revolution to Reconstruction.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street. Call 336-318-6803 for further information.