With the Bark Off: Conversations on the American Presidency

"Know your strengths, find your cause, and get started tomorrow.": A Conversation with Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Roberts

Episode Summary

Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts, the authors of The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World, talk about the 72-year struggle toward women’s right to vote and the template the suffrage movement provides for how to wage a successful social movement today.

Episode Notes

Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts, whose friendship goes back generations - to their grandmothers, Lady Bird Johnson and Lindy Boggs, and their mothers, Lynda Robb and Cokie Roberts - wrote The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World in recognition of the centennial of the 19th AmendmentThe authors discuss the women, many unheralded, who waged the 72-year struggle toward achieving a woman’s right to vote, and the template the suffrage movement provides for pursuing a successful social movement today.

 

Copies of The Suffragist Playbook with signed bookplates are available for sale from The Store at LBJ.