The Campaign For Women Suffrage In Virginia

Author : Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne & Barbara C. Batson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467144193

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Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia, The by Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne & Barbara C. Batson Pdf

In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting rights across the nation. Virginia suffragists were a part of that victory, although their role has been nearly forgotten. They marched in parades, rallied at the state capitol, spoke to crowds on street corners, staffed booths at fairs, lobbied legislators, picketed the White House and even went to jail. The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia reveals how women created two statewide organizations to win the right to vote. At the centenary of the movement, these remarkable women can at last be recognized for their important contributions.

Author : Brent Tarter,Marianne E. Julienne,Barbara C. Batson
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1540242048

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Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia by Brent Tarter,Marianne E. Julienne,Barbara C. Batson Pdf

In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting ri

Author : Marjorie Julian Spruill,Marjorie Spruill Wheeler
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0870498371

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Votes for Women! by Marjorie Julian Spruill,Marjorie Spruill Wheeler Pdf

A collection of scholarly essays and primary documents which consider both sides of the woman suffrage question, particularly as it was debated in the South and in Tennessee, which in 1920 became the pivotal thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.

Author : Brent Tarter,Marianne E. Julienne,Barbara C. Batson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439669082

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The Campaign for Women Suffrage in Virginia by Brent Tarter,Marianne E. Julienne,Barbara C. Batson Pdf

In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting rights across the nation. Virginia suffragists were a part of that victory, although their role has been nearly forgotten. They marched in parades, rallied at the state capitol, spoke to crowds on street corners, staffed booths at fairs, lobbied legislators, picketed the White House and even went to jail. The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia reveals how women created two statewide organizations to win the right to vote. At the centenary of the movement, these remarkable women can at last be recognized for their important contributions.

Author : Conway Whittle Sams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Anti-feminism
ISBN : HARVARD:HN239P

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Shall Women Vote? by Conway Whittle Sams Pdf

"This book is not written for women; it is written for men. It is in opposition to woman's suffrage, which the writer regards as one of the greatest afflictions which could happen to any state"--P.9. The author uses the laws of Virginia to demonstrate how the women's rights movement, and woman suffrage in particular, seeks to strip men of their rights and transfer them to women and children.

Author : Carolyn Christensen Nelson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781460403716

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Literature of the Women's Suffrage Campaign in England by Carolyn Christensen Nelson Pdf

During the British women's suffrage campaign of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women wrote plays to convert others to their cause; they wrote essays to justify their militant actions; and they wrote fiction and poetry about their prison experiences. This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women's suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been reprinted since they were first published. This important collection includes essays reflecting a variety of opinions and political positions; excerpts from autobiographies by women involved in the movement; suffrage poetry; the song that became the official song of the British suffrage movement; several one-act plays that were written and performed specifically to advance the suffrage cause; and short stories and excerpts from novels about suffrage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Blair
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 089587119X

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The Negro in Virginia by Anonim Pdf

Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Elaine Weiss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698407831

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The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss Pdf

"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton Soon to Be a Major Television Event The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "With a skill reminiscent of Robert Caro, [Weiss] turns the potentially dry stuff of legislative give-and-take into a drama of courage and cowardice."--The Wall Street Journal "Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for telling language ... She also shows a superb sense of detail, and it's the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain individuals warrant entire novels of their own... Weiss's thoroughness is one of the book's great strengths. So vividly had she depicted events that by the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps."--Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.

Author : Doris Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Suffrage
ISBN : UOM:39015009198824

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Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens Pdf

Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813943930

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Virginians and Their Histories by Brent Tarter Pdf

Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an understanding of the commonwealth. With Virginians and Their Histories, Brent Tarter presents a fresh, new interpretive narrative that incorporates the experiences of all residents of Virginia from the earliest times to the first decades of the twenty-first century, affording readers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging account of Virginia’s story. Tarter draws on primary resources for every decade of the Old Dominion's English-language history, as well as a wealth of recent scholarship that illuminates in new ways how demographic changes, economic growth, social and cultural changes, and religious sensibilities and gender relationships have affected the manner in which Virginians have lived. Virginians and Their Histories interweaves the experiences of Virginians of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and classes, representing a variety of eras and regions, to understand what they separately and jointly created, and how they responded to economic, political, and social changes on a national and even global level. That large context is essential for properly understanding the influences of Virginians on, and the responses of Virginians to, the constantly changing world in which they have lived. This groundbreaking work of scholarship—generously illustrated and engagingly written—will become the definitive account for general readers and all students of Virginia’s diverse and vibrant history.

Author : Stacie Taranto,Leandra Zarnow
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421438696

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Suffrage at 100 by Stacie Taranto,Leandra Zarnow Pdf

Suffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971—remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. This is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women's access to, and influence on, political power remains frustratingly uneven, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. Essays touch on • labor and civil rights • education • environmentalism • enfranchisement and voter suppression • conservatism vs. liberalism • indigeneity and transnationalism • LGBTQ and personal politics • Pan-Asian, Chicana, and black feminisms • commemoration and public history • and much more. Contributors: Melissa Estes Blair, Eileen Boris, Marisela R. Chávez, Claire Delahaye, Nicole Eaton, Liette Gidlow, Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq), Emily Suzanne Johnson, Dean J. Kotlowski, Monica L. Mercado, Johanna Neuman, Kathleen Banks Nutter, Katherine Parkin, Ellen G. Rafshoon, Bianca Rowlett, Sarah B. Rowley, Ana Stevenson, Barbara Winslow, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Nancy Beck Young

Author : Katherine H Adams,Michael L Keene
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252090349

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Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign by Katherine H Adams,Michael L Keene Pdf

Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence. Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage.

Author : Clara Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474423167

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Virginia Woolf by Clara Jones Pdf

As well as tracing Woolf's career as an activist across 45 years, this book also explores the consistent but often contradictory way in which this participation is written into a range of Woolf's short stories, novels and essays.

Author : Lisa Tickner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226802450

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The Spectacle of Women by Lisa Tickner Pdf

Too "artistic" for political history, too political for the history of art, the visual history of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and pathbreaking study, Lisa Tickner discusses and illustrates the suffragist use of spectacle—the design of banners, posters and postcards, the orchestration of mass demonstrations—in an unprecedented propaganda campaign.

Author : Laura E. Free
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501701085

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Suffrage Reconstructed by Laura E. Free Pdf

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed considers how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction. Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment's language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men's right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women's rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for the first time as the Amendment was being drafted. To prevent women's inadvertent enfranchisement, and to incorporate formerly disfranchised black men into the voting polity, the Fourteenth Amendment's congressional authors turned to gender to define the new American voter. Faced with this exclusion some woman suffragists, most notably Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned to rhetorical racism in order to mount a campaign against sex as a determinant of one's capacity to vote. Stanton's actions caused a rift with Frederick Douglass and a schism in the fledgling woman suffrage movement. By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War–era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women's rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise.