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Corinne McConnaughy’s recent book, The Woman Suffrage Movement in America, analyzed the successes and/or failures of efforts to establish political or reform coalitions and influence legislators, but her study is limited to five states and the U.S. Congress. An extensive body of work of Holly J. McCammon and others has emphasized the ...
10 wrz 2018 · Over three-quarters of a century, women’s rights and suffrage leaders steadily agitated their cause through a shifting American political landscape, from the careful innovations of the early national period, through the expansive involvements of antebellum politics, into the dramatic shifts of revolution and reaction in the post–Civil War ...
14 mar 2002 · Baker's introductory essays set the stage for revisiting suffrage by making explicit the similarities and differences in interpretations of suffrage and what the battle for suffrage tells us about women's history.
This book departs from familiar accounts of high-profile woman suf-frage activists whose main concern was a federal constitutional amend-ment.
20 sie 2015 · This chapter examines how the so-called white man’s government was created by tracking constitutional development between 1790 and 1850. More specifically, it considers why, as states transitioned from property-based franchises to “universal” white male suffrage, women and African Americans who had previously voted under earlier laws were ...
7 paź 2022 · Suffragette was a term invented in 1906 to describe militant prosuffrage activists, and many suffragette stories focus on women who are storming Parliament or who have been to prison for similarly disruptive offences. Evelyn Sharp’s “The Black Spot of the Constituency” involves public speakers who create a bond with their impoverished ...
12 sie 2020 · The upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment is a milestone in women’s suffrage, marking a culmination of decades-long efforts by women who called for full citizenship. This history, Stanford ...
