Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote

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  • Author: Ware, Susan
    Contributor:

    Dunne, Bernadette

    Summary:

    An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.

    Contents:
    • Prologue: A walk through suffrage history
    • Part One. Claiming citizenship: The trial of Susan B. Anthony and the "Rochester Fifteen"
    • Sojourner Truth speaks truth to power
    • Sister-wives and suffragists
    • Alice Stone Blackwell and the Armenian crisis of the 1890s
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman finds her voice
    • Part Two. The personal is political: The shadow of the Confederacy
    • Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club
    • Two sisters
    • Claiborne Caitlin's suffrage pilgrimage
    • "How it feels to be the husband of a suffragette"
    • The farmer-suffragettes
    • Suffragists abroad
    • Part Three. Winning strategies: Mountaineering for suffrage
    • Hazel MacKaye and the "allegory" of woman suffrage
    • "Bread and roses" and votes for women too
    • Cartooning with a feminist twist
    • Jailed for freedom
    • Maud Wood Park and the Front Door Lobby
    • Tennessee's "Perfect 36"
    • Epilogue: "Leaving all to younger hands".
    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, History, Political science
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] , Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781094062907

    ,

    1094062901

    ,

    9781094062914

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Dunne, Bernadette

Abstract

An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.

Genre
Biographies and autobiographies
History
Political science
Publisher (Source)

[Ashland, Oregon]

Blackstone Publishing

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