Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Subtitle: A Suffragist's Life in Politics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 27, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780195304862
First sentence: THE THINGS MINNIE SUE FISHER REMEMBERED MOST VIVIDLY ABOUT growing up in East Texas in the 1880s and 1890s were her mother's stories of life before the Civil War and the railroad that was built across the plantation afterward, the romance of the Old South and reality of the New.
Description: Minnie Fisher Cunningham was Texas's most important female political activist. After directing Texas's woman suffrage campaign, she helped found the National League of Women Voters and the Woman's National Democratic Club. This is the biography of the lifelong politician affectionately known as Minnis Fish.