| Description |
viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-320) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: A walk through suffrage history -- Part One. Claiming citizenship: The trial of Susan B. Anthony and the "Rochester Fifteen" -- Sojourner Truth speaks truth to power -- Sister-wives and suffragists -- Alice Stone Blackwell and the Armenian crisis of the 1890s -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman finds her voice -- Part Two. The personal is political: The shadow of the Confederacy -- Ida Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club -- Two sisters -- Claiborne Caitlin's suffrage pilgrimage -- "How it feels to be the husband of a suffragette" -- The farmer-suffragettes -- Suffragists abroad -- Part Three. Winning strategies: Mountaineering for suffrage -- Hazel MacKaye and the "allegory" of woman suffrage -- "Bread and roses" and votes for women too -- Cartooning with a feminist twist -- Jailed for freedom -- Maud Wood Park and the Front Door Lobby -- Tennessee's "Perfect 36" -- Epilogue: "Leaving all to younger hands". |
| Summary |
For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware uncovers a much broader and more diverse history waiting to be told. Why They Marched is the inspiring story of the dedicated women--and occasionally men--who carried the banner in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and demonstrating for the right to become full citizens.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
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Suffragists -- United States -- History.
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Suffragists. (OCoLC)fst01137197
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Women -- Suffrage.
(OCoLC)fst01176996
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780674986688 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0674986687 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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