Response from Jessica Enoch

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Acknowledgments

My appreciation goes to Cheryl Glenn, David Gold, Shirley Wilson Logan, Kristy Maddux, Cecilia Shelton, Scott Wible, and Carly Woods for their suggestions as I composed this response.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ In considering how to commemorate suffrage at the centennial in 2020, Bergmann and Monumental Women were not alone in exploring ways to consider race. Centennial commemorations such as the New York Times’s online production “Finish the Fight”; musicals such as Suffs; podcasts such as And Nothing Less; and popular books such as Martha Jones’s Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All and Susan Ware’s Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote all took the opportunity to broaden, deepen, and complicate the public imagination by considering how suffragists of color fought for the vote and how race and racism inflected claims for voting rights. As a feminist public memory scholar, I see it as my job to be both emboldened and excited by the plethora of commemorative projects that emerged from the centennial anniversary and to look critically at what these commemorations are saying. I take up these explorations in my RSQ essay and in my book project, Remembering Suffrage: Feminist Memory and Activism at the Centennial of the 19th Amendment.

² See Enoch and Glenn, “Centennial Reflections on Suffrage Scholarship.”