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In this episode, we explore the messy fight for women s suffrage. So imagine you're organizing like the absolute biggest civil rights convention of your century. You draft your demands, you get all your allies together, and then your own co -organizers pull you aside and basically tell you that asking for the right to vote is just too ridiculous. Yeah, that it would make the whole movement look like a joke. Exactly. And that is exactly what happened to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848. at the Seneca Falls Convention. It really is wild to think about. It is. The very spark that ignited the women's rights movement almost didn't even include suffrage because the women themselves thought it was too extreme. So welcome to this custom -tailored deep dive created specifically for you. Glad to be here. Today, we're pulling apart a really comprehensive histori ... 
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