Exploring Women&#039;s Suffrage through 50 Historic Treasures

Jessica D. Jenkins

doi:10.5771/9781538112809

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A full-color exploration of the history of women's suffrage.

From hunger strikes to massive parades, the American women’s suffrage movement grabbed the attention of citizens and politicians around the United States. Posters, lapel buttons, and even luncheonette plates carried the iconic phrase, “Votes for Women.” Over time this phrase became not only a slogan, but a rallying cry for the movement. Today, museums, libraries, universities, and historic sites across the country care for the objects and places that tell the story of suffrage. Exploring Women’s Suffrage through 50 Historic Treasures brings together a selection of these cultural gems representing the milestones, people, and legacy of the long campaign for women’s voting rights. Through color photos and short essays detailing each object’s story, readers will not only find themselves in the action of a groundbreaking social and political movement, but they are also transported around the nation to the institutions and sites that are the keepers of the country’s past.

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-1279-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-1280-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 306
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Illustrations No access
3. Preface No access
4. Timeline of Objects No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
6. Introduction No access
1. 1. Laying a Strong Foundation No access
2. 2. Pawns of Politics No access
3. 3. Change Begins with Education No access
4. 4. Created Equal No access
5. 5. “Ain’t I a Woman?” No access
6. 6. Dressing the Part No access
1. 7. Organizing a Nation No access
2. 8. What’s Old Is New Again No access
3. 9. Scandinavians for Suffrage No access
4. 10. Votes for Justice No access
5. 11. One of Many Cogs No access
1. 12. “Votes for Women” No access
2. 13. Loyalty, Purity, and Life No access
3. 14. The War of the Roses No access
4. 15. The Spirit of 1776 No access
5. 16. Identity Erased No access
6. 17. Martyr for the Cause No access
1. 18. The Modern Shopper No access
2. 19. Posters as Publicity No access
3. 20. All Buttoned Up No access
4. 21. A Recipe for Success No access
5. 22. Suffrage on the Silver Screen No access
1. 23. Catching Fire No access
2. 24. Converting to the Cause No access
3. 25. Men for Suffrage No access
4. 26. If You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours No access
5. Part VI. ROADBLOCKS AND SETBACKS No access
6. 27. Unrequited Love No access
7. 28. Rampant Racism No access
8. 29. A Formidable Opponent No access
9. 30. Courting the System No access
10. 31. The South No access
1. 32. Read All about It! No access
2. 33. Suffrage with a Side of Soup No access
3. 34. On the Road to Victory No access
4. 35. Lifting as We Climb No access
5. 36. Lobbying for the Vote No access
6. 37. Swimming for Suffrage No access
7. 38. Falling into Line No access
8. 39. Jailed for Freedom No access
1. 40. Winning in the West No access
2. 41. Progressing in Politics No access
3. 42. A Move Eastward No access
4. 43. Walking into History No access
5. 44. Tipping the Scale No access
6. 45. Mother Knows Best No access
1. 46. Under the Watchful Eye No access
2. 47. Bridges of Hope No access
3. 48. Taking the Next Step No access
4. 49. Going Global No access
5. 50. Reckoning with the Past . . . and Future No access
Appendix. Significant Women’s Suffrage Victories in the United States before the Ratification of the 19th Amendment No access Pages 263 - 264
Notes No access Pages 265 - 298
Index No access Pages 299 - 304
About the Author No access Pages 305 - 306