Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment
Subtitle: A Reference Guide
By: Marion W. Roydhouse
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Guides to Historic Events in America
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9798216033127
Subjects: History
Description: This contextual narrative of the 70-year history of the woman suffrage movement in the United States demonstrates how an important mass political and social movement coalesced into a political force despite class, racial, ethnic, religious, and regional barriers.  Votes for Women! provides an updated consideration of the questions raised by the mass movement to gain equality and access to power in our democracy. It interprets the campaigns for woman suffrage from the 1830s until 1920, analyzes the impact of the Nineteenth Amendment, and presents primary documents to allow a glimpse into the minds of those who campaigned for and against woman suffrage.  The book's examination of the 70-year woman suffrage campaign shows how the movement faced enormous barriers, was perceived as threatening the very core of accepted beliefs, and was a struggle that showcased the efforts of strong protagonists and brilliant organizers who were intellectually innovative and yet were reflective of the great divides of race, ethnicity, religion, economics, and region existing across the nation. Included within the narrative section are biographies of significant personalities in the movement, such as militant Alice Paul and anti-suffragist Ida Tarbell as well as more commonly known leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Table of contents: title: Series Foreword Preface Introduction-Women Vote: The Brief Episode of New Jersey Chronology: Woman Suffrage Chapter 1. A World of Hope: Abolition and Woman's Rights, 1807-1861 Chapter 2. The Civil War and the Great Schism, 1861-1870 Chapter 3. The New Departure and the Rights of Citizens, 1870-1880 Chapter 4. Woman Suffrage Becomes Respectable, 1870-1900 Chapter 5. The History of Woman Suffrage and Unification, 1880-1890 Chapter 6. Out of the Doldrums, 1905-1915 Chapter 7. New Coalitions, New Suffragists, and New Tactics, 1910-1915 Chapter 8. The Final Triumph, 1910-1920 Aftermath-New Voters: What Changed? Biographical Essays Abigail Jane Scott Duniway (October 22, 1834 to October 11, 1915) Kate M. Gordon (July 14, 1861 to August 24, 1932) Leonora O'Reilly (February 16, 1870 to April 3, 1927) Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (August 31, 1842 to March 13, 1924) Maud Younger (January 1870 to June 1936) Primary Documents 1. The Nineteenth Amendment as passed and ratified, 1920 2. Sojourner Truth, Address to the American Equal Rights Association (1867) 3. Debates at the American Equal Rights Association Meeting (1869) 4. Virginia L. Minor's petition to the circuit court of St. Louis County, Missouri, 1872 5. The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873 6. Belle Kearney, "The South and Woman Suffrage," 1903 7. Jane Addams, "The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women," NAWSA Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, February 7-13, 1906 8. Caroline A. Lowe, Address to NAWSA Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 21-26, 1912 9. The New York Campaign, 1915 10. "Women Must Fight, Says Mrs. Belmont: Suffrage Leader, Ready to Sail for World Convention, Praises Militancy," New York Times, 1913 11. "Mrs. Brannan Tells of Jail Treatment: Asserts That Women Pickets Were Roughly Handled at Occoquan. Demands Removal of Flag. Believes That Attempt Was Made to Break Prisoners Spirit by Torture of Fear," New York Times, 1917 12. "Pickets Are Praised: Dudley Field Malone Talks to Mass Meeting in Their Honor," Special to the New York Times, 1917 Appendix: Suffrage Timetable Selected Bibliography Index