which extensively gave women the constitutional right to vote but the amendment came with a huge asterixu said you are not celebrating the 19th amendment this year and i would love for you to talk to us about what the 19th amendment did and did not do for women at large. and why this is not a moment of celebration for you. >> the good news is, i'm a historian, i don't have to look at celebrations. i certainly have been a celebration adjacent to this, let's put it that way. i really declined, why? the 19th amendment is its history, take on the problem the ways in which anti-black racism runs through and is one of the underlying logic's that permits the 19th amendment to be ratified, what do i mean? the campaign for the 19th amendment rests to an important degree on the exclusion of black women, the marginalization of black women that movement. because the movement is leadership under standard believe that the only way to succeed is by winning the support of white southern women and ultimately their husbands were going to vote on the ratification of the federal amendment, what is that mean