Table of Contents
Preface "Aye" 1
Chapter 1 "Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy!": Before Seneca Falls 6
Chapter 2 "All men and women are created equal": Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 30
Chapter 3 "The right is ours": Creating a National Suffrage Movement 43
Chapter 4 "In thought and sympathy we were one": A Feminist Friendship 62
Chapter 5 "You must be true alike to the women and the negroes": Division in the Suffrage Movement 80
Chapter 6 "Madam, you are not a citizen": Victoria Woodhull Speaks to Congress 107
Chapter 7 "I have been & gone & done it!!": Susan B. Anthony Votes for President 128
Chapter 8 "We ask justice, we ask equality": Forward, Step by Step 144
Chapter 9 "Failure is impossible!": The Next Generation 171
Chapter 10 "Votes for Women": The Second Wave of Suffragists 180
Chapter 11 "How long must women wait for liberty?": Parades and Protests 193
Chapter 12 "Power belongs to good": The Silent Sentinels 215
Chapter 13 "This ordeal was the most terrible torture": Hungering for Justice 239
Chapter 14 "Don't forget to be a good boy": The Battle for Ratification 258
In Her Own Words: Key Primary Sources 273
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792): Mary Wollstonecraft 273
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838): Sarah Grimké 273
Declaration of Sentiments (1848): Elizabeth Cady Stanton 274
"Ain't I a Woman?" (1851): Sojourner Truth 274
Wedding Vows of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell (1855) 275
"Are Women Persons?": Susan B. Anthony's Address after Her Arrest for Illegal Voting (1873) 275
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920) 275
The Suffrage Sisters: A Timeline 276
Bibliography 280
Books 280
Films 283
Manuscript Collections 283
Websites 284
Places of Interest 284
Notes 285
Acknowledgments 305
Index 307