No Vote for Women: The Denial of Suffrage in Reconstruction America

No Vote for Women: The Denial of Suffrage in Reconstruction America
ISBN-10
1476673330
ISBN-13
9781476673332
Category
History
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2019-10-09
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Bernadette Cahill

Description

From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. Ignoring all women, black and white, advocates argued that enfranchising black men would solve race problems, masking the effect on women. This book weaves Anthony's and Stanton's campaigns together with national and congressional events, in the process uncovering relationships among these events and revealing the devastating impact on the women and their campaign for civil rights for all citizens.

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