One half the people : the fight for woman suffrage
Print Book, English, 1982
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University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1982
History
x, 179 pages ; 23 cm
9780252010118, 9780252010057, 0252010116, 0252010051
1081054754
pt. 1. One half the people. Consent of the governed
The making of a movement
Turning the corner 1896-1916
Victory : 1917-1920
pt. 2. Documents of the decision. Women in seventeenth-century England
An early feminist
"Declaration of sentiments"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the politics of woman suffrage
The women suffrage amendment is introduced
Are women enfranchised by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments?
The Supreme Court says women are citizens, but not voters
Woman's declaration of rights
"I am a home-loving, law-abiding, tax-paying woman ..."
The making of a suffragist
Testimony to the Senate
"Do a majority of women ... want the ballot?"
Carrie Chapman Catt describes the opposition
"Merely to stay in the home is not enough ..."
The Illinois suffrage campaign
"On behalf of 7,000,000 wage-earning women ..."
Mrs. Catt's winning plan
Holding the party in power responsible
The argument for bipartisanship or nonpartisanship
Stirring up activity in the home districts
"The fearless spirit of youth ..."
Making use of every opportunity
The education of Woodrow Wilson
"Nothing has been left undone ..."
"The passage of the amendment depends upon your work ..."
Four factors making for success
Patterns of congressional votes
The suffragists : a collective sketch
The electoral thermometer
Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1975. (The America's alternatives series)