This book is produced by women's suffrage leaders: the Great Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage & Ida Husted Harper. It presents the complete history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States. This edition presents the major source for primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. In addition to the remarkable history of suffrage movements this collection is enriched with the biographies of the most influential figures of American movement for women's suffrage: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul.
Mrs. Lawrence's improvements are not completed; she is extending her shrubbery and walks. She is undoubtedly one of the most skillful cultivators and florists in the country (a country abounding with them), and carries off more prizes ...
From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, to Sojourner Truth and her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in prison, ...
"A history of Black women's struggle to achieve voting rights in the United States, identifying key heroines who contributed to the suffrage movement, as well as their communities"--
They’ll read about the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which stated, “all men and women are created equal.” The book also discusses how the fight for women’s rights ...
" --School Library Journal Cast your vote for Alice Paul! The story of a tireless suffragette and the president she convinced to change everything.
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote.
"Profiles ten women who fought hard to gain the right to vote in the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Inez Milholland."--
Mary Leigh seized her moment when she spotted Asquith travelling in an open carriage with his family, John Redmond, and the Lord Mayor of Dublin. She hurled a hatchet at him as the open carriage passed the General Post Office taking the ...
... Rachel, 127 Foster, Stephen S., 28, 75–76 “Fourteen Points” speech, 244, 250 Fourteenth Amendment, 54–57, 59, 61, 71, 85, 98, 101, 102, 104, 159, 252 proposed woman suffrage language, 56–57, 85 Fowler, Charles, 107 France, 189, 241, ...
Emmeline Pankhurst was perhaps the most influential woman of the twentieth century.