Suffrage
Suffrage Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its…
Specifikacia Suffrage
Suffrage
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a crushing disappointment. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery.
She introduces new champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought the fight into the 20th century, and she shows how African American DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism.