April 12, 2019 at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Room - Faculty Dining Room, Wagner College

Speaker - Susan Goodier, SUNY Oneonta Dept. of History

Susan Goodier will present “The Very Greatest Victory: New York Votes for Women,” based on her co-authored book, Women Will Vote: The New York State Suffrage Movement(Cornell, 2017). She argues that women won the right vote because they drew on several distinct coalitions of activists – black, rural, urban, elite, radical, male – to demand and win the right to vote. While the women’s suffrage movement benefited from brilliant leadership, it needed broad-based support to win the right to full political engagement, including the right to vote, and to expand the understanding of what makes a democracy a democracy  

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Susan Goodier studies U.S. women’s activism, particularly women’s suffrage activism, from 1840 to 1920. She earned a master’s degree in Gender History, a doctorate in Public Policy History, with subfields in International Gender and Culture and Black Women’s Studies, and a Women’s Studies master’s degree, all from the University at Albany. At SUNY Oneonta she teaches various courses in Women’s History, New York State History, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Progressivism.

Dr. Goodier is the coordinator for the Upstate New York Women's History Organization (UNYWHO). She is a member of the board of directors for the New York Historyjournal; in 2017 she edited a double issue on woman suffrage. The University of Illinois published her first book, No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement, in 2013. Her second book, coauthored with Karen Pastorello, is Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State(Cornell University Press, 2017). She is currently working on two books: a biography of Louisa M. Jacobs, the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and another on black women in the New York suffrage movement.