Dr. Slater discusses voting rights on South Carolina Public Radio

It’s Election Day! While you’re waiting in line to vote, check out Associate Professor Sandy Slater’s interview with South Carolina Public Radio.

The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote 100 years ago, but Black women were excluded from the suffragist movement. Dr. Slater, who is also the director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, discusses prominent South Carolina suffragettes while highlighting this, “historical legacy that can’t be ignored because it’s inconvenient.”

Click here to read the interview, or listen below!

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