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Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
Publication Information
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Physical Description
viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.--
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".