Heroes of Abolition and Suffrage
This program explored abolition and suffrage history through the legacies of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. Descendants Coline Jenkins and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. represent three significant figures in civil rights history and work to carry on the important history in their family trees that impacted our nation.
Distinguished Guest Speakers
Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.
Descendant of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington
President of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. is descended from two of the most important names in American history: he is the great, great, great grandson of American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass and the great, great grandson of Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.
Coline Jenkins
Great, Great Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Suffragette descendent Coline Jenkins is the Founder and President of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust, a collection of 3,000 objects of women's suffrage memorabilia that has been lent to presidential libraries, museum exhibits, book publishers, documentary film producers and television programs.
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution, granting citizens the right to vote in the U.S. and could no longer be denied on the basis of sex. The fight for women's suffrage was successful, but it was complex and interwoven with issues of civil and political rights for all Americans.
Guest Moderator
Myles V. Lynk
American Law Institute | D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel
Past Board Member | Sandra Day O'Connor Institute
Inaugural Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law | ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
With Appreciation
