American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (LOA #332)
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American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (LOA #332)
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Overview
With a record number of female candidates in the 2020 election and women's rights an increasingly urgent topic in the news, it's crucial that we understand the history that got us where we are now. For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights for American women, of every race, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it. Here are 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. Here, too, are the anti-suffragists who worried about where the country would head if the right to vote were universal. Expertly curated and introduced by scholar Susan Ware, each piece is prefaced by a headnote so that together these 100 selections by over 80 writers tell the full history of the movement—from Abigail Adams to the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and the limiting of suffrage under Jim Crow. Importantly, it carries the story to 1965, and the passage of the Voting and Civil Rights Acts, which finally secured suffrage for all American women. Includes writings by Ida B. Wells, Mabel Lee, Margaret Fuller, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frederick Douglass, presidents Grover Cleveland on the anti-suffrage side and Woodrow Wilson urging passage of the Nineteenth Amendment as a wartime measure, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among many others.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598536645 |
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| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Publication date: | 07/07/2020 |
| Series: | Library of America Series |
| Pages: | 761 |
| Sales rank: | 1,049,273 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.80(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.50(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction xix
Part 1 1776-1870
Abigail Adams and John Adams 5
Letters
New Jersey State Constitution 13
Voter Qualifications
Maria W. Stewart 14
Lecture at the Franklin Hall
Sarah Moore Grimké 19
From Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
Angelina Grimké 27
Address to the Massachusetts Legislature
Margaret Fuller 30
From "The Great Lawsuit"
Eleanor Vincent, Lydia A. Williams, Lydia Osborn, Susan Ormsby, Amy Ormsby, Anna Bishop 34
Petition to the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York
Seneca Falls Convention 36
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Sojourner Truth 43
Speech to Ohio Woman's Rights Convention
Ernestine L. Rose 45
Speech to the Second National Woman's Rights Convention
New York Herald 59
The Woman's Rights Convention-The Last Act of the Drama
Harriot K. Hunt 64
Tax Protest
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 67
Address to the Legislature of New-York
Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell 84
Marriage Protest
Lucy Stone 87
Address to the Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention
Woman's Loyal National League 91
Call, Resolutions, and Debate
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112
Speech at the Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention
Sojourner Truth 116
Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
Debates at the American Equal Rights Association Meeting 119
Frederick Douglass 149
Woman and the Ballot
Part 2 1870-1900
Victoria Woodhull 157
Address to the House Judiciary Committee
Minor v. Happersett Ruling 163
National Woman Suffrage Association 177
Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States
Susan B. Anthony 185
Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot!
Matilda Joslyn Gage 196
Indian Citizenship
Mary Tape 199
Letter to the San Francisco Board of Education
Mormon Women of Utah 201
Protest
The New York Times 204
They Enter a Protest
George Vest 206
Remarks on the Amendment to Extend Suffrage to Women
Alice C. Fletcher 210
The Legal Conditions of Indian Women
Anna J. Cooper 216
From A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South
Colorado Equal Suffrage Association 221
Suffrage Referendum Leaflet
Committee on Protest against Woman Suffrage 223
To the Constitutional Convention of New York State
Fannie Barrier Williams 228
Women in Politics
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 232
Address at the First National Conference of Representatives of Black Women's Clubs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 236
Significance and History of the Ballot
Frances E. Willard 242
The Ballot for the Home
National American Woman Suffrage Association 246
On Behalf of Hawaiian Women
Abigail Scott Duniway 249
How to Win the Ballot
Part 3 1900-1920
Belle Kearney 261
The South and Woman Suffrage
Annie Nathan Meyer 267
Woman's Assumption of Sex Superiority
Mary Church Terrell 275
The Progress of Colored Women
Grover Cleveland 282
Would Woman Suffrage be Unwise?
Finley Peter Dunne 293
Mr. Dooley on Woman's Suffrage
Alice Hill Chittenden 299
The Counter Influence to Woman Suffrage
Florence H. Luscomb 307
Our Open Air Campaign
Jane Addams 315
Why Women Should Vote
Harriot Stanton Blatch 326
From "The Women's Political Union"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 332
Something to Vote For
Alice Stone Blackwell 353
Militant Methods
Leonora O'Reilly 361
Statement before Joint Congressional Session of Congress
Max Eastman 365
Values of the Vote
Josephine Jewell Dodge 372
The Lesson That Came from the Sea-What it Means to the Suffrage Cause
Marie Jenney Howe 376
An Anti-Suffrage Monologue
Los Angeles Times 382
Squaws Beat Militants to Right of Franchise
Alice Paul 383
Testimony at Suffrage Parade Hearings
Helen Hamilton Gardener 391
Woman Suffrage, Which Way?
Mary Johnston 401
A Difference of Opinion
Mabel Lee 409
The Meaning of Woman Suffrage
Mary Roberts Coolidge 416
Raising the Level of Suffrage in California, Or What Have They Done With It?
Hazel MacKaye 419
Pageants as a Means of Suffrage Propaganda
Ida B. Wells 425
Seeking the Negro Vote
The Crisis 433
Votes for Women: A Symposium by Leading Thinkers of Colored America
Oreola Williams Haskell 459
The Greatest Thing
Arthur Raymond Brown 468
From How It Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette
Alice Duer Miller 473
From Are Women People?
Abby Scott Baker 475
Letter to the Editor of The Outlook
Carrie Chapman Catt 481
The Crisis
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government 508
Letter Series No. 1-10
Maud Wood Park 520
To NAWSA Congressional Chairmen
The New York Times 525
"Silent, Silly, and Offensive" and "Militants Get 3 Days; Lack Time to Starve"
Alice Hill Chittenden 528
Woman's Service or Woman Suffrage
Lavinia Dock 531
The Young Are at the Gates
Caroline Katzenstein 533
Prison Experiences with Emphasis on the Night of Terror
Woodrow Wilson 543
Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment
The Suffragist 548
Reminding the President When He Landed in Boston
Southern Women's League 553
Declaration of Principles for the Rejection of the Proposed Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Maud Wood Park 555
A Perfect Moment
Part 4 1918-1965
Gertrude Foster Brown 565
From Tour Vote and How to Use It
Fairchild v. Hughes and Leser v. Garnett Rulings 569
Indian Citizenship Act 575
Doris Stevens and Dr. Alice Hamilton 577
The "Blanket" Amendment-A Debate
Ida M. Tarbell 594
Is Woman's Suffrage a Failure?
Doris Stevens 606
Address to the Sixth Pan American Conference, Havana, Cuba
Dr. Marta Robert 616
Statement on Woman Suffrage in Porto Rico
El Congreso de Pueblo de Habla Espanola 621
Resolutions Adopted by the Second Convention
Eleanor Roosevelt 632
Women in Politics
John F. Kennedy 642
President's Commission on the Status of Women
Fannie Lou Hamer 646
Testimony to the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention
Constance Baker Motley 650
Speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Chronology 659
Note on the Texts 669
Note on the Illustrations 679
Notes 681
Index 709