Why Women Should Vote
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Women
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Author : New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1915*
Category : Constitutional amendments
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Author : Alice Stone Blackwell
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Women
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 191?
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Elaine Weiss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0698407830
"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton Soon to Be a Major Television Event The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "With a skill reminiscent of Robert Caro, [Weiss] turns the potentially dry stuff of legislative give-and-take into a drama of courage and cowardice."--The Wall Street Journal "Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for telling language ... She also shows a superb sense of detail, and it's the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain individuals warrant entire novels of their own... Weiss's thoroughness is one of the book's great strengths. So vividly had she depicted events that by the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps."--Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
Author : Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253211767
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote. She analyzes the women's own stories, and examines why they joined and how they participated in the U.S. women's suffrage movement.
Author : Rebecca Mead
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0814757227
Uncovers how women in the West fought for the right to vote By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens? In this provocative new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. She highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement, and places special emphasis on the political adaptability of Western suffragists whose improvisational tactics earned them progress. A fascinating story, previously ignored, How the Vote Was Won reintegrates this important region into national suffrage history and helps explain the ultimate success of this radical reform.