Remember the ladies : celebrating those who fought for freedom at the ballot box / Angela P. Dodson.
Title:
Remember the ladies : celebrating those who fought for freedom at the ballot box / Angela P. Dodson.
Personal Author:
ISBN:
9781455570935
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication:
New York : Center Street, [2017]
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-406) and index.
Contents:
section 1. A long silence -- Cracking the ceiling -- Seventy years of struggle -- At the ballot box -- Disenfranchised : "we are determined to foment a rebelion" -- "All men are created equal" -- Consent of the governed -- "Inhabitants" and "persons" -- Legal status of women -- Reinventing the nation -- The founding mothers -- Inventing chattel slavery -- Breaking the silence -- A suitable education -- Abolitionists take the lead -- Lucy Stone : a woman of courage -- The London encounter -- Lucretia Mott : uncompromising reformer -- The radical Quakers.
section 2. The awakening : a declaration of sentiments -- The first convention -- An invitation to tea -- "And women are created equal" -- Declaration of sentiments -- The resolutions -- Douglass speaks -- Signers of the declaration of sentiments at Seneca Falls -- The Rochester Convention -- A call to action -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton : the mother of the movement.
section 3. The early conventions -- "Let us convene" -- Worcester, Massachusetts, 1850 -- Worcester, Massachusetts, 1851 -- Syracuse, New York, 1852 -- Ohio conventions, 1851-1853 -- Sojourner Truth : powerful orator -- Masillon, Ohio, 1852 -- The Bloomer : "dress reform" -- New York City, 1853 -- "A surfeit of conventions," 1854-1861 -- The Temperance Movement.
section 4. A division -- The Abolitionist Lecture Tour -- The party of Lincoln -- The loyal women -- Whose hour? -- Universal suffrage demand -- "The last straw" -- The split -- The revolution -- A difference in strategies -- Breakthrough in Wyoming -- The long wait -- Susan B. Anthony : the drum major for suffrage.
section 5. Are women persons? -- A new direction -- The Woodhull scandal -- The new departure -- The Susan B. Anthony Amendment -- The mother vote -- The opposition forces -- Reunification : together again -- "Lifting as we climb" -- Ida B. Well-Barnett -- The Southern strategy -- Farewell to Douglass -- Changing of the guard -- Carrie Chapman Catt -- The doldrums.
How long must women wait? -- A new era -- "Stirring up the world " -- A bolder course -- "Outdoor warfare" -- Welcoming Wilson -- Another split -- Alice Paul -- "The winning plan" -- "War work" -- The congresswoman votes "no" -- Jail and hunger strikes -- "Night of terror" -- New York : victory in 1917 -- A vote in Congress -- More delays, more arrests -- Battle for Tennessee -- The League of Women Voters -- "The last step" -- Equal Rights Amendment -- Appendices : Firsts : a woman's place -- Appendix 1. Congressional women's caucus -- Appendix 2. Women in Congress -- Appendix 3. Women as governors -- Appendix 4. Women Representatives and Senators by state and territory, 1917-present -- Appendix 5. Woman suffrage time line, 1756-2016 -- Map : Votes for women.
Abstract:
"2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that hard won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since. From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote, drawing on historic research, biographies of leaders, and such original sources as photos, line art, charts, graphs, documents, posters, ads, and buttons. It presents this often-forgotten struggle in an accessible, conversational, relevant manner for a wide audience. Here are the groundbreaking convention records, speeches, newspaper accounts, letters, photos, and drawings of those who fought for women's right to vote, all in their own words, arranged to convey the inherent historical drama. The accessible almanac style allows this entertaining history speak for itself. It is full of little-known facts. For instance: When the Constitutional Convention of the thirteen colonies convened to draft the Constitution, Abigail Adams admonished her husband John Adams to "remember the ladies" (write rights for women into the Constitution! Important for today's discussions, REMEMBER THE LADIES does not extract women's suffrage from the inseparable concurrent historic endeavors for emancipation, immigration, and temperance. Its robust research documents the intersectionality of women's struggle for the vote in its true context with other progressive efforts"-- Provided by publisher.
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Physical Description:
viii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Carrier Type:
volume
Content Type:
text
Language:
English
