Women's Suffrage
San Diego : Greenhaven Press, [2003]
Format: Book
Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series: History firsthand.
Contents:
Movement begins: Women should be involved in politics / Susan T. Smith -- Resolutions of the Seneca Falls Convention / Various attendees -- Rationale for a women's suffrage amendment / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Remember Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a woman?" Speech / Frances D. Gage -- Can women win the right to vote if they wear dresses? / Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances D. Gage -- Making a case for national women's suffrage: Constitution grants women's suffrage / Victoria Claflin Woodhull -- Fourteenth amendment grants women's suffrage / Susan B. Anthony -- Citizenship does not confer voting rights / U.S. Supreme Court -- Debating women's suffrage in Congress / U.S. Senate -- Campaigning in the states: Obtaining women's suffrage in Wyoming / J.W. Kingman -- How to win the state ballot / Abigail Scott Duniway -- Campaigning across a dozen states / Anna Howard Shaw -- Lobbying the New York Senate / Harriot Stanton Blatch -- Why Massachusetts voted against women's suffrage / Ernest Bernbaum -- Nineteenth Amendment: Winning planning / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Mobilizing lobbyists to pressure congressmen / Maud Wood Park -- Refuting arguments against suffrage / Alice Stone Blackwell -- Jailed for protesting / Doris Stevens -- President appeals to the senate / Woodrow Wilson -- Celebrating victory and looking forward / National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Subjects:
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
0737713054 (pbk : alk. paper)
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HISTORY Women Wom | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.