Celebrate Constitution Day and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with a deep dive into the battle for women’s suffrage. Dr. Ellen DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, offers a fresh perspective on the long struggle for women’s voting rights, looking at roads not taken, generations of activists involved, obstacles faced and overcome, and what was – and wasn’t – won as a result.

Presented by:
Ellen Carol Dubois, Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research, LA Law Library, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law

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A century after the passage of the 19^th Amendment, how far have we come?  Take a short, virtual tour of 100 Years After the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, and Our Future, the American Bar Association’s  travelling exhibit. Now housed at LA Law Library, the exhibit  includes photographs and details about the women's suffrage movement and its influence on the struggle for voting rights. Learn who risked everything to get women the vote, how they did it and why the battle to expand democracy isn’t over yet.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Join the LA Law Library book discussion group as we conclude our year of Women and the Law with the true story of Eunice Hunton Carter, the grandmother of Yale Law Professor and bestselling author, Stephen L. Carter. She was black, a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves - as unlikely a combination as one could imagine in the New York City of the 1930s. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city's underworld, she was the only member of the team who was not a white male. Without the strategy that she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful mob boss in history, would not have been convicted. Complicating her rise in the legal profession was her difficult relationship with her younger brother, Alphaeus, an avowed Communist who – together with his friend Dashiell Hammett – went to prison during the McCarthy era.

Moving, haunting, and as fast-paced as a novel, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster, tells the true story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of her time, but never accepted defeat.

Presented by: Katie O'Laughlin, Managing Librarian, LA Law Library

Registration fee: FREE
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