What the Broadway Musical 'Suffs' Gets Right (and Wrong) About the History of Women's Suffrage

Jenn Colella as Carrie Chapman Catt (center) in Suffs, a new Broadway musical about the women's suffrage movement Joan Marcus In 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John, who was formulating a “new code of laws” during the American Revolution, to “remember the ladies.” He did not. Nearly 150 years later, the National American Woman Suffrage Association and its leader, Carrie Chapman Catt, asked for…