A history of the American suffragist movement /

Weatherford, Doris.

A history of the American suffragist movement / Doris Weatherford ; foreword by Geraldine Ferraro. - Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1998. - xvi, 280 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / In the Beginning: 1637 to 1840 -- "Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World": 1840 to 1848 -- "The Spirit of a Snake" and the Spirit of Success: 1848 to 1860 -- The Battle Cry of Freedom: 1860 to 1876 -- The Hour Not Yet: 1871 to 1888 -- The Century Turns; The Movement Turns: 1881 to 1912 -- The Longest Labor Ends: 1912 to 1920. Geraldine Ferraro -- Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.

Tracing the roots of the movement to the independent women of seventeenth-century colonial America, Weatherford chronicles the long and tortuous campaign to secure women's suffrage. She emphasizes the connections of the women's movement, which rested on profound moral convictions, to the other great nineteenth-century reform movements of abolitionism and temperance. She recounts the inspiring triumphs as well as the heartbreaking setbacks of the movement, which culminated in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

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Women--Suffrage--History.--United States
Suffragists--History.--United States

JK1896 / .W43 1998