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Loading... American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (LOA #332) (The Library of America)by Susan Ware
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"For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights in all its diversity and intersectionality, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it: the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims, and the anti-suffragists who worried about where the country would head if suffrage were universal. The full story of the long and diverse movement that led to women receiving the right to vote-in their own voices"-- No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)324.623Social sciences Political Science The political process Suffrage, Voting Rights, Voting and Electoral Systems Suffrage explorationLC ClassificationRatingAverage: (4.67)
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We first hear from Abigail Adams as she fruitlessly encouraged her husband to ensure women’s rights. We also hear from him citing the still common, and false, assertion that women actually are in charge. “We are the subjects. We have only the Name of Masters, and rather than give up this, which would compleatly subject Us to the Despotism of the Peticoat.” There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun.
The last person we hear from is Fannie Lou Hamer who described how she was dispossessed of her home, arrested, and beaten for registering to vote to the credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee.
In between, many women write of their desire for suffrage, to be full citizens in their country. We hear from Black women organizing and speaking for women’s suffrage even before the Civil War, not just during the Civil Rights Era. This book does an excellent job of restoring women to their place in history. We also hear from the men, the editorials moaning about all the terrible consequences. Seriously, Rush Limbaugh is unimaginative compared to the 1852 “New York Herald.”
American Women’s Suffrage is excellent. It has the comprehensive coverage I expect from the Library of America. It fills in the gaps and erasures in the story of organizing for the vote. In this year where turnout exceeded all expectations in spite of so many things that could have suppressed the vote, it seems an ideal time to study how women won the right to vote.
I received an e-galley of American Women’s Suffrage from NetGalley.
American Women’s Suffrage at the Library of America
Susan Ware author site
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