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

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  • 324.623 W272 (CEN, OSH)

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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".

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