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050 0 0 _aJK1896
_b.W43 1998
100 1 _aWeatherford, Doris.
245 1 2 _aA history of the American suffragist movement /
_cDoris Weatherford ; foreword by Geraldine Ferraro.
260 _aSanta Barbara, Calif. :
_bABC-CLIO,
_c1998.
263 _a9805
300 _axvi, 280 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tForeword /
_rGeraldine Ferraro --
_gCh. 1.
_tIn the Beginning: 1637 to 1840 --
_gCh. 2.
_t"Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World": 1840 to 1848 --
_gCh. 3.
_t"The Spirit of a Snake" and the Spirit of Success: 1848 to 1860 --
_gCh. 4.
_tThe Battle Cry of Freedom: 1860 to 1876 --
_gCh. 5.
_tThe Hour Not Yet: 1871 to 1888 --
_gCh. 6.
_tThe Century Turns; The Movement Turns: 1881 to 1912 --
_gCh. 7.
_tThe Longest Labor Ends: 1912 to 1920.
520 _aTracing 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.
520 8 _aShe recounts the inspiring triumphs as well as the heartbreaking setbacks of the movement, which culminated in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
650 0 _aWomen
_xSuffrage
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSuffragists
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
900 _bTOC
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_cREF
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