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Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
Published 2019 by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ISBN 9780674986688
Bib Id 2281406
Copyright 2019
Description viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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LCCN
2018-039670
ISBN
9780674986688 (hardcover) $26.95
0674986687
Call #
324.623 W
Title
Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
Publication Information
2019 by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Copyright Date
©2019
Description
viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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".
Summary
For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware uncovers a much broader and more diverse history waiting to be told. Why They Marched is the inspiring story of the dedicated women--and occasionally men--who carried the banner in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and demonstrating for the right to become full citizens.--
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