Votes for Women!: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation

Votes for Women!: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation
ISBN-10
0870498371
ISBN-13
9780870498374
Category
History
Pages
358
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Authors
Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Marjorie Julian Spruill

Description

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.

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