Women’s History Month Lecture at Park University to Address Women and Voting as 100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment Approaches

Feb. 27, 2019 — On June 4, 1919, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by Congress, then ratified on Aug. 18, 1920. The amendment, which prohibits states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex, will be the focus of Park University’s annual Women’s History Month Lecture on Monday, March 25.

The lecture, to be presented by Kim Warren, Ph.D., will begin at 3 p.m. in McCoy Meetin’ House on the University’s Parkville Campus. Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Warren, an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas, is a scholar of gender and race in African-American and Native American studies, history of education and U.S. history. She authored a book on African-American and Native American citizenship and served as an editor of a book on the transformation of the University of Kansas between 1965 and 2015. Her other publications include examinations of Native American masculinity and athletics, separate gender spheres ideology and African-American tourism in West Africa. Warren’s second monograph, an investigation of Mary McLeod Bethune’s political strategies to advance the movements of women and African-Americans in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Warren, the Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark through the Fulbright Foundation in 2017-18, earned both her doctorate and Master of Arts degrees in history from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in American studies from Yale University.

The National Archives at Kansas City is a co-sponsor of the lecture.