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Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
Record details
- ISBN: 9780674986688
- ISBN: 0674986687
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Physical Description:
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viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Women Suffrage United States History Suffragists United States History |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | JK 1896 .W37 2019 | 30775305546500 | General Collection | Available | - |
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.--