History of the women's suffrage movement in Nebraska from 1855 to 1920.
From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, to Sojourner Truth and her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in prison, ...
ELIzABETH AND ANNE MILLER: A MoTHER-DAuGHTER SuFFRAGE TEAM Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822–1911) and Anne fitzhugh Miller (1856–1912) were a mother-daughter team with reform in their blood. Elizabeth Smith Miller was the daughter of Gerrit ...
No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.
A collection of scholarly essays and primary documents which consider both sides of the woman suffrage question, particularly as it was debated in the South and in Tennessee, which in 1920 became the pivotal thirty-sixth state to ratify the ...
Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
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This volume is essential reading for those interested in American politics and women's formal participation in it.
These are the stories of five trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Elizabeth Cady Stanton began campaigning for women s rights when she was refused entry to a convention because she was a woman.
August 18, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex.
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