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The woman suffrage movement in the United States


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Summary: "The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States presents important moments and participants in the history of the American suffrage movement, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The book highlights the many participants in the suffrage movement, including well-known leaders, lesser-known activists, major national organizations, and local efforts across the country. An array of perspectives is examined: the garment factory worker working for protective labor laws, the wealthy wife hoping to control her inheritance, the Black activist seeking voting power for her community, and the temperance worker wanting to vote for prohibition laws. The volume examines the crucial activism of Black suffragists and other women of color, as well as the fraught nature of the cross-racial coalition in the movement. The broad and accessible approach to this important period in history will enable students to consider questions such as: How could suffragists overcome their differences and build community? Were wealthy women who funded salaries, headquarters, and parades afforded more power? What tactics and strategies did suffragists utilize to lobby legislators and win over the public? How did suffragists and anti-suffragists wield racism as a political tactic both in support of and against the Nineteenth Amendment? How and when did women of color finally achieve the right to vote? Students will also be able to consider lessons from the suffrage movement for an inclusive feminist movement today. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in U.S. women's history, the history of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, and those interested in the histories of social movements".

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chronology -- Who's Who -- Glossary of Organizations -- Abbreviations -- Part I Background -- 1 Introduction -- A Long and Diverse Suffrage Movement -- Prioritizing the Right to Vote -- Studying the Suffrage Movement -- Part II Analysis -- 2 Early Demands for Women's Rights -- The American Revolution and Natural Rights -- Growing Educational Opportunities for Education for Women -- Industrialization and Separate Spheres in the Early Republic -- The Second Great Awakening -- Moral Suasion and the Early Nineteenth-Century Reform Movement -- Conclusion -- 3 Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement -- A Range of Viewpoints Among Abolitionists -- Maria W. Stewart, the First Woman Abolitionist Lecturer -- Lucretia Coffin Mott and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society -- Angelina and Sarah Grimke Defend Women's Anti-Slavery Activism -- Conclusion -- 4 Women's Rights Convention Begin -- Petitions for Woman Suffrage at the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1846 -- The World's First Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, 1848 -- Women's Rights Conventions Continue -- Sojourner Truth Preaches Against Racism and Sexism -- Other Black Women Activists at Women's Rights Conventions -- Conclusion -- 5 Suffrage and Citizenship After the Civil War -- Susan B. Anthony -- American Equal Rights Association and Universal Suffrage -- Stanton and Anthony Abandon Universal Suffrage -- Human Rights and Citizenship Rights -- Supreme Court Decisions Fail to Support Women's Rights -- Conclusion -- 6 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Home Protection Ballot, and Women's Clubs -- The Progressive Reform Era, 1880s-1910s -- Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- Frances Willard Advocates for the Home Protection Ballot ; The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the South -- The Rise of Women's Clubs -- Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women's Support for Suffrage -- Black Clubwomen and the Disenfranchisement of Black Men in the South -- White Clubwomen and the General Federation of Women's Clubs -- Municipal Housekeeping -- Conclusion -- 7 State Suffrage Campaigns in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Early Efforts in the Western Territories and States -- The 1896 California Referendum -- Carrie Chapman Catt and Early Iowa Suffrage Efforts -- Conclusion -- 8 The Suffrage Movement Expands -- The Southern Strategy -- NAWSA Promotes Racism to Win Suffrage -- Raising Money From Wealthy Women for NAWSA -- College Equal Suffrage League -- Working-Class Women and the Women's Trade Union League -- The Uprising of the 20,000 -- Conclusion -- 9 Infighting at NAWSA Headquarters -- Recruiting Wealthy Donors to the Movement -- Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and the New NAWSA Headquarters -- Conflict at Headquarters Continues With New Auditor Katharine McCormick -- Conclusion -- 10 Victory in California -- Working-Class and Wealthy Women Combine Efforts in California's Campaign -- Obtaining Support From Diverse Voters -- California's Strategy Adopted by Other States -- Conclusion -- 11 Suffragists Take to the Streets -- "Open Air" Speakers -- Suffrage Parades -- Alice Paul and the Washington, DC Suffrage Parade -- Black Women and the Washington, DC Parade -- Ida B. Wells, Anti-Lynching Activist and Suffragist -- Ida B. Wells and the Washington, DC Suffrage Parade -- Marie Bottineau Baldwin and the Washington, DC Suffrage Parade -- Washington, DC Marchers Attacked -- Conclusion -- 12 Rival National Associations -- Alice Paul and the New Congressional Union -- The Rift Widens -- Paul Leaves NAWSA With Alva Belmont -- Conclusion ; 13 The Public Relations Campaign to Win Support for Suffrage -- The Importance of Letters -- NAWSA's Bureau of Suffrage Education -- Publicity Through Mainstream and Suffrage Newspapers -- The Woman's Journal Becomes NAWSA's Official Newspaper -- Conclusion -- 14 Campaign Strategy in Illinois, Iowa, and New York -- Presidential Suffrage in Illinois -- Illinois Women Have the Vote -- Unsuccessful Campaigns in Iowa -- The Importance of New York -- Upstate New York and New York City -- Black Suffragists in New York -- Success in New York in 1917 -- Conclusion -- 15 Lobbying Congress for the Nineteenth Amendment -- Appealing to Southern White Senators -- Punishing the Party in Power -- Carrie Chapman Catt and the Winning Plan -- Suffrage House, Washington, DC -- The National Woman's Party -- White House Pickets -- Conclusion -- 16 The National Woman's Party and NAWSA in South Carolina, New Mexico, and Texas -- South Carolina Organizes for Suffrage -- Opposition to Woman Suffrage in South Carolina -- New Mexico Women Prioritize the Federal Amendment -- Nina Otero-Warren Leads the New Mexico National Woman's Party -- Texas Women and Primary Election Voting -- Organizing Black Women in Texas -- Woman Suffrage and Citizenship Voting Amendments in Texas -- Conclusion -- 17 Suffragists Win Support in Congress for a Federal Amendment -- Suffragists Support World War I -- Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in Congress -- Suffragists Burn Wilson in Effigy -- Congress Votes for the Nineteenth Amendment -- Conclusion -- 18 Tennessee: The Thirty-Sixth State to Ratify the Nineteenth Amendment -- The Road to Thirty-Six States -- Tennessee: The Long Road to Ratification -- Suffragists Go to Tennessee -- Ratification at Last -- Conclusion -- Part III Assessment -- 19 Conclusion: The Nineteenth Amendment and Voting Rights From 1920 to the Present ; Black Women in the South -- Immigration, Race, and Citizenship -- Black Women Appeal to White Women for Assistance -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- The Women's Rights Movement -- Conclusion -- Part IV Documents -- Documents -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Index


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