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Author: Helen Koutras Bozonelis
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2008-08-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781598450675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the history of the women's suffrage amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rebecca Mead
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0814757227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Christina Wolbrecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1107187494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Author: Susan Goodier
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0252094670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women. Susan Goodier finds that conservative women who fought against suffrage encouraged women to retain their distinctive feminine identities as protectors of their homes and families, a role they felt was threatened by the imposition of masculine political responsibilities. She details the victories and defeats on both sides of the movement from its start in the 1890s to its end in the 1930s, acknowledging the powerful activism of this often overlooked and misunderstood political force in the history of women's equality.
Author: Elaine Weiss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-06-02
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0593125207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This adaptation of the book Hillary Clinton calls "a page-turning drama and an inspiration" will spark the attention of young readers and teach them about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women's suffrage--just in time for the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes an eight-page photo insert! American women are so close to winning the right to vote. They've been fighting for more than seventy years and need approval from just one more state. But suffragists face opposition from every side, including the "Antis"--women who don't want women to have the right to vote. It's more than a fight over politics; it's a debate over the role of women and girls in society, and whether they should be considered equal to men and boys. Over the course of one boiling-hot summer, Nashville becomes a bitter battleground. Both sides are willing to do anything it takes to win, and the suffragists--led by brave activists Carrie Catt, Sue White, and Alice Paul--will face dirty tricks, blackmail, and betrayal. But they vow to fight for what they believe in, no matter the cost.
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Publisher: St James's House
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781906670887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →August 2020 marked the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women's right to vote across the US. A Vote for Women celebrates this major landmark, combining an in-depth history of the suffrage movement with extensive archival photography and accounts of its legacy up to the present day.
Author: Cynthia Chin-Lee
Publisher: A True Book (Relaunch)
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531133422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Have women always been allowed to vote in the United States? Inside, You'll Find: How, for decades, women of all backgrounds battled for the right to vote by writing articles, signing petitions, and protesting in large parades; Iconic photos, biographies, a timeline, and details about who opposed giving women the right to vote; Surprising TRUE facts that will shock and amaze you! Book jacket.
Author: Elaine Weiss
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0698407830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
