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	Podcast:		Access Utah
	Episode:		Revisiting 'Born Criminal': Women's Suffrage With Angelica Shirley Carpenter On Access Utah
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:54:03
	Publish Date:		2019-07-31 11:13:43
	Description:		Here is the opening passage from Angelica Shirley Carpenter ’s book “Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist:” “In 1893, a deputy sheriff knocked on Matilda Joslyn Gage’s door in Fayetteville, New York. He had come to arrest her. ‘All of the crimes which I was not guilty of rushed through my mind,’ she wrote later, ‘but I failed to remember that I was a born criminal—a woman.’ Her crime: registering to vote. The verdict: guilty as charged. “Matilda was actually pleased to be arrested. She welcomed attention to her cause: women’s rights. A famous leader in the early women’s movement, she was a writer, organizer, speaker, planner, and historian. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but today she is mostly forgotten, after those so-called friends wrote her out of history. I hope that my book will help to write her back in.” We’ll talk about women’s suffrage today as well as Matilda Joslyn Gage’s connection to The Wizard of Oz. She was L.
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