Sidedoor: Votes for Hawaiians

What would you give up to gain the vote?

100 years ago this month, the 19th Amendment was ratified into the American Constitution. It’s widely remembered as the moment American women gained the right to vote, but history tells a more complex story. For millions of Indigenous Americans living in far-flung territories, the 19th Amendment afforded some rights—but fell well short of what was promised.

On this episode of Sidedoor: Learn how women’s suffrage came to Hawai’i—and at what cost to native Hawaiians.

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