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1 online resource (xxxiii, 519 pages) |
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Anthology "comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries with commentary on each period by the editor, this book covers the major issues and figures involved in the women's suffrage movement with a special focus on diversity, incorporating race, class, and gender. The writings of such figures as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are featured alongside accounts of Native American women and African American suffragists such as Sarah Mapps Douglas and Harriet Purvis"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Women voted before the United States was formed -- Women organized before Seneca Falls -- The 1850s : the movement takes off -- The 1860s : in full stride, the war's setback, and regrouping after -- The 1870s : a decade of progress, loss, and refining tactics -- "The centennial year-1876," history of woman suffrage -- The 1880s : a decade of progress and danger -- The 1890s : suffrage victories and moral decay -- The 1900s : consolidating power -- 1910 : nearing the finish line for suffrage -- 1920 : the final victory. |
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I. WOMEN VOTED BEFORE THE UNITED STATES WAS FORMED -- 1. "The Remnant of the Five Nations,"by Matilda Joslyn Gage, the (New York) Evening Post, ,September 24, 1875 -- 2. Woman, Church and State, by Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1893 -- 3. "Indian Citizenship," by Matilda Joslyn Gage, National Citizen and Ballot Box, May 1878 -- 4. "The Matriarchate, or Mother-Age," by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, February 1891 -- 5. "The Legal Condition of Indian Women," Alice Fletcher's speech at the 1888 International Council of Women -- 6. "The Rights and Condition of Women," sermon by Samuel J. May, November 1845 -- II. WOMEN ORGANIZED BEFORE SENECA FALLS -- 1. "Preceding Causes," by Matilda Joslyn Gage, published in History of Woman Suffrage, volume I, 1881 -- 2. Mary Grew's report of the second Female Anti-Slavery Society national convention, 1838 -- 3. Laura Lovell's report of the second Female Anti-Slavery Society convention, 1838 -- 4. An Appeal to American Women, on Prejudice Against Color, 1839 -- 5. Angelina Grimke's address to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1838 -- 6. Judge Hertell's defense of his Married Women's Property Bill, 1836 -- 7. Declaration of Sentiments adopted at Seneca Falls convention, 1848 -- 8. "The Times that Try Men's Souls," by Maria Weston Chapman, 1837 -- 9. Lucretia Mott on the Seneca Falls convention, from letter to the Liberator, August 24, 1848 -- 10. Lucretia Mott on the Seneca, from letter to the Liberator, August 24, 1848 -- III. THE 1850s: The Movement Takes Off -- 1. Abby H. Price's speech at the first national woman's rights convention, in 1850 -- 2. Ernestine Rose's speech at the 1851 National Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts -- 3. New York State Legislature's Select Committees' February 20, 1854, response to a petition signed by 5,931 men and women, calling for the "just and equal rights of women" -- 4. Lucy Stone's comments at the 1852 National Woman's Rights Convention regarding taxation -- 5. The New York Tribune's reporting on Harriot Hunt's tax protest, and her letter to the Boston authorities, November 16, 1853 -- 6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton on "the Bloomer costume" in her "Reminiscences," published in History of Woman Suffrage, volume I, 1881 -- 7. Public letter by Gerrit Smith to Elizabeth Cady Stanton criticizing her for giving up the reform dress, dated December 1, 1855, referenced in "Reminiscences" -- 8. Public letter by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gerrit Smith as counterargument, December 21, 1855 -- 9. Dress reformers criticize suffragists for abandoning the movement in a New York Tribune article, January 20, 1857 -- 10. Speech by "Mrs. Branch" on Free Love printed in the Syracuse Standard, July 1858 -- |
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IV. THE 1860s: In Full Stride, the War's Setback, and Regrouping After -- 1. "Appeal to the Women of New York and Petition" from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President; Lydia Mott, Secretary and Treasurer; Ernestine L. Rose; Martha C. Wright; and Susan B. Anthony, on behalf of the New York State Woman Suffrage Committee, November ... -- 2. "Marriage and Divorce," Elizabeth Cady Stanton's letter to Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune, May 8, 1860 -- 3. Horace Greeley's response in the New York Tribune, May 14, 1860 -- 4. The History of Woman Suffrage editors' conclusion to the divorce debate between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune -- 5. Angelina Grimke Weld's speech at the Woman's Loyal National League convention, May 1863 -- 6. The Woman's Loyal National League petitions presented to Congress on February 9, 1864, calling for an end to the institution of slavery -- 7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's follow-up petition call of April 7, 1864, on behalf of the Woman's Loyal National LeagueSusan B. Anthony's proposal for the creation of an organization to work for universal suffrage at the eleventh National Woman's Rights Co... -- 8. Susan B. Anthony's proposal for the creation of an organization to work for universal suffrage at the eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention, held May 10, 1866 -- 9. Susan E. Wattles's letter to Susan B. Anthony on Kansas's struggle to become a free (non-slave) state and achieve universal suffrage, December 30, 1881 -- 10. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's editorials opposing the Fifteenth Amendment in the Revolution, October 21, 1869, and June 3, 1869 -- 11. The Revolution's reporting of the first National Woman's Suffrage Convention, held in Washington in January 1869 -- 12. The American Equal Rights Association's debate on the Fifteenth Amendment, May 1869 -- V. THE 1870S: A Decade of Progress, Loss, and Refining Tactics -- 1. "Child-Birth Made Easy," by Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, 1870 -- 2. The St. Louis Resolutions proposed by Francis Minor and adopted by the NWSA, October 1869 -- 3. "Woman's Rights Catechism," by Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1871 -- 4. "Woman Suffrage. The Argument of Carrie S. Burnham before Chief Justice Reed, and Associate Justices Agnew, Sharswood and Mercur of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, on the Third and Fourth of April, 1878" -- 5. Victoria C. Woodhull, "And the Truth Shall Make You Free," speech, Steinway Hall, November 20, 1871 -- 6. Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, president of the New York Woman Suffrage Association, call for a mass tax protest meeting, 1873 -- 7. Matilda Joslyn Gage's argument against the Supreme Court decision in Minor v. Happersett at the 1875 NWSA convention -- 8. Matilda Joslyn Gage's description of the NWSA 1876 Centennial protest, chapter XXVII, "The Centennial Year--1876," History of Woman Suffrage -- 9. The minority report of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, February 1, 1879 -- 10. Resolutions adopted by the National Woman Suffrage Association convention, May 1878 -- |
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VI. THE 1880S: A Decade of Progress and Danger -- 1. Report of the House of Representatives Special Committee on Woman Suffrage, March 1, 1883 -- 2. Summary of Belva Lockwood's speech at the January 1878 NWSA convention -- 3. Platform of the National Equal Rights Party, 1884 -- 4. Clara Foltz, "Testimony of an Eye-Witness," 1885 -- 5. Discussion by NWSA members of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's church accountability resolution in the 1886 NWSA convention -- 6. "Persons and Things," Matilda Joslyn Gage article in her National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1881 -- 7. Clara Bewick Colby, "The Relation of the Woman Suffrage Movement to the Labor Question," NWSA convention, 1886, as edited in History of Woman Suffrage (and Resolutions) -- 8. Lillie Devereux Blake, president of the New York City Suffrage Association, description of the 1886 protest at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, in the Woman's Journal -- 9. "Our New York Letter," Lillie Devereux Blake's description of the 1887 Constitution centennial protest -- 10. Excerpt from Lillie Devereux Blake lecture "Is It a Crime to Be a Woman?," published in the San Jose Daily, July 27, 1888 -- 11. Matilda Joslyn Gage, A Statement of Facts. Private. To members of the National Woman Suffrage Association Only, 1889 -- VII. THE 1890S: Suffrage Victories and Moral Decay -- 1. "Woman's Imperative Duty," an address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton upon her eightieth birthday, November 12, 1895 -- 2. Susan B. Anthony's speech during The Woman's Bible debate in the National American Woman Suffrage Association 1895 convention -- 3. The Woman's Bible Introduction, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Revising Committee, 1898 -- 4. Letter of support for Moses Harman by Alice Stone Blackwell, associate editor of the Woman's Journal, 1894 -- 5. "The Co-Operative Ideal Will Remodel Codes and Constitutions," a letter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton to a Woman Suffrage Convention, 1898 -- VIII. THE 1900s: Consolidating Power -- 1. Lillie Devereux Blake Diary entries selected from January 23 to March 28, 1900 -- 2. Laura Peters letter to Lillie Devereux Blake, January 18, 1900 -- 3. "Educated Suffrage," Elizabeth Cady Stanton's last speech, read by Clara Colby at the 1902 NAWSA convention, excerpted in History of Woman Suffrage, volume 5 -- 4. NAWSA board of officers' response to an accusation by the New Orleans Times-Democrat that the suffragists were encouraging racial equality, signed Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, Kate Gordon, and Alice Stone Blackwell, 1902 -- 5. Reverend Anna Howard Shaw in her autobiography, The Story of a Pioneer, recalled how she handled the repeated query about the "color question" at the 1903 NAWSA convention -- 6. Ida B. Wells, in this excerpt from her autobiography, Crusade for Justice, recalls an 1894 visit with Susan B. Anthony -- 7. "The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women," Jane Addams's speech at the 1906 NAWSA convention -- 8. Fannie Williams's eulogy to Susan B. Anthony at the 1907 NAWSA convention, excerpted in History of Woman Suffrage, volume 5 -- 9. Anthony's report for the Congressional Committee at the 1900 NAWSA convention explaining why Congress had not acted favorably on the woman suffrage amendment -- 10. Ida Craddock's suicide note extracted, 1902 -- IX. 1910: Nearing the Finish Line for Suffrage -- 1. "Suffragette Tells of Forcible Feeding," the New York Times, February 18, 1910 -- 2. Report of Emmeline Pankhurst's speech at the 1911 NAWSA convention in History of Woman Suffrage, volume 5 -- 3. Speech of Margaret Hinchey, a laundry worker, at the 1913 NAWSA convention -- 4. Anna Howard Shaw's speech at the 1913 NAWSA convention -- 5. Helen Hamilton Gardener's 1913 speech to the House of Representatives calling for the establishment of a Committee on Woman Suffrage -- 6. Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to the Congress on Women's Suffrage, November 1917 -- 7. "Woman Suffrage and the Fifteenth Amendment," by Mary Church Terrell, published in The Crisis, August 1915 -- 8. "Arrest 41 Pickets for Suffrage at the White House," the New York Times, November 11, 1917 -- 9. "Woman Suffrage and the Negro," by A. Philip Randolph, the Messenger, November 1917 -- X. 1920: The Final Victory -- 1. "The Story of the 36th State," Harriet Taylor Upton in the Headquarters News Bulletin, September 1, 1920 -- Afterword: Now That Our Journey Is at an End. |
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Women's rights. |
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Wagner, Sally Roesch, editor.
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Steinem, Gloria, writer of foreword.
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Print version: Women's suffrage movement. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2019 9780143132431 (DLC) 2018050035 |
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