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Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
- Title
- Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote / Susan Ware.
- Author
- Ware, Susan, 1950-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- 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.--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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".
- Call Number
- JFD 19-4097
- ISBN
- 9780674986688
- 0674986687
- LCCN
- 2018039670
- OCLC
- 1057244710
- Author
- Ware, Susan, 1950- author.
- Title
- Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote / Susan Ware.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-4097