How the vote was won
Subtitle: the story of woman suffrage and beyond
By: Rose Marie Eckert, Ph.D.
Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781626522183
Subjects: Suffragists; Women; Suffrage; History; Women's rights
Other titles: Story of woman suffrage and beyond
Description: There is a long history behind women's rights in the United States. The struggle to win the right to vote took place over a period exceeding 70 years. The birth of the woman suffrage movement in the second half of the nineteenth century began the process that led to sweeping social changes for women, and this book chronicles that river of change. How the Vote was Won begins at a time in history when America was cloaked in civil unrest. In the years before and after the Civil War, awareness of social inequality led to the rise of one of the strongest forces in the suffrage battle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginning of the Woman's Movement in the 1800s --; title: Creation of two rival woman suffrage organizations --; title: State enfranchisements and the suffrage campaign entering the twentieth century --; title: The suffrage movement pre-World War I --; title: The suffragists, President Wilson, and World War I --; title: Passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment --; title: Changes in women's lives, from 1920 to the present.