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Loading... A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot (2010)by Mary Walton
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. What an interesting and, except for a bit in the middle, well written book of history this is! It read like a novel. Alice Paul was a ball of fire and intensely focused on getting the vote for women. At times her intensity caused a split in friendships. I didn't know much about the suffrage movement, and had never heard of Alice Paul. I highly recommend this book. ( ) "Nearly a half century before Martin Luther King brought Gandhian methods to bear on racial segregation, Alice Paul used nonviolent protest to win full voting rights for women. Mary Walton vividly brings Quaker Alice Paul to life in this brilliant, important, and highly readable book." from Gene Roberts, author of the Race Beat, Pulitzer Prize winner for History. no reviews | add a review
"Alice Paul began her life as a quiet girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. But as a young woman, an interest in social work brought her to England, where she apprenticed with the militant suffrage movement there, led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters. Upon her return to the United States, Alice founded her own suffrage movement. Calling themselves "Silent Sentinels," she and her followers were the first protestors to picket the White House. Behind bars, they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed and brutalized. Years before Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent resistance, and decades before civil rights demonstrations, Alice Paul and her followers practiced peaceful civil disobedience. In 1920, a woman's right to vote finally became law. In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Sentinels' great victory, here at last is the inspiring story of the woman who dedicated her life to winning universal suffrage for women and helped propel that dream to reality"--Provided by publisher. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)324.6Social sciences Political Science The political process Suffrage, Voting Rights, Voting and Electoral SystemsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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