American women's suffrage : voices from the long struggle for the vote 1776-1965 / Susan Ware, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ware, Susan, 1950- editor.

Series:

Library of America ; 332.

Library of America ; 332

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--United States--History.

Women.

Women--Suffrage.

Feminists.

History.

Suffragists.

African American women social reformers.

African American women--Political activity.

African American women.

African Americans--Suffrage.

Minorities--Civil rights.

Minorities--Suffrage.

United States.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History--Sources.

Minorities--Suffrage--History.

Minorities.

Minorities--Civil rights--History--Sources.

African Americans--Suffrage--United States.

African Americans.

African American women--Political activity--History.

African American women social reformers--History.

Suffragists--United States--History.

Feminists--United States--History.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxx, 731 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Library of America, [2020]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part one: 1776-1870. Letters / Abigail Adams and John Adams

Voter qualifications (New Jersey State Constitution)

Lecture at the Franklin Hall / Maria W. Stewart

from Letters on the equality of the sexes / Sarah Moore Grimké

Address to the Massachusetts Legislature / Angelina Grimké

from "The great lawsuit" / Margaret Fuller

Petition to the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York / Eleanor Vincent, Lydia A. Williams, Lydia Osborn, Susan Ormsby, Amy Ormsby, Anna Bishop

Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Seneca Falls Convention

Speech to Ohio Woman's Rights Convention / Sojourner Truth

Speech to the Second National Woman's Rights Convention / Ernestine L. Rose

The Woman's Rights Convention, the last act of the drama (New York Herald)

Tax protest / Harriot K. Hunt

Address to the Legislature of New-York / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Marriage protest / Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell

Address to the Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention / Lucy Stone

Call, resolutions, and debate (Woman's Loyal National League)

Speech at the Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association / Sojourner Truth

Debates at the American Equal Rights Association Meeting

Woman and the ballot / Frederick Douglass

Part two: 1870-1900. Address to the House Judiciary Committee / Victoria Woodhull

Minor v. Happersett ruling

Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States / National Woman Suffrage Association

Woman wants bread, not the ballot! / Susan B. Anthony

Indian citizenship / Matilda Joslyn Gage

Letter to the San Francisco Board of Education / Mary Tape

Protest (Mormon women of Utah)

They enter a protest (New York Times)

Remarks on the amendment to extend suffrage to women / George Vest

The legal conditions of Indian women / Alice C. Fletcher

from A voice from the South, by a Black woman of the South / Anna J. Cooper

Suffrage referendum leaflet (Colorado Equal Suffrage Association)

To the Constitutional Convention of New York State / Committee on Protest against Woman Suffrage

Women in politics / Fannie Barrier Williams

Address at the First National Conference of Representatives of Black Women's Clubs / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Significance and history of the ballot / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The ballot for the home / Frances E. Willard

On behalf of Hawaiian women / National American Woman Suffrage Association

How to win the ballot / Abigail Scott Duniway

Part three: 1900-1920. The South and woman suffrage / Belle Kearney

Woman's assumption of sex superiority / Annie Nathan Meyer

The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell

Would woman suffrage be unwise? / Grover Cleveland

Mr. Dooley on woman's suffrage / Finley Petter Dunne

The counter influence to woman suffrage / Alice Hill Chittenden

Our open-air campaign / Florence H. Luscomb

Why women should vote / Jane Addams

from "The women's political union" / Harriot Stanton Blatch

Something to vote for / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Militant methods / Alice Stone Blackwell

Statement before Joint Congressional Session of Congress / Leonor O'Reilly

Values of the vote / Max Eastman

The lesson that came from the sea : what it means to the suffrage cause / Josephine Jewell Dodge

An anti-suffrage monologue / Marie Jenney Howe

Squaws beat militant to right of franchise (Los Angeles Times)

Testimony at suffrage parade hearings / Alice Paul

Woman suffrage, which way? / Helen Hamilton Gardener

A difference of opinion / Mary Johnstone

The meaning of woman suffrage / Mabel Lee

Raising the level of suffrage in California, or what have they done with it? / Mary Roberts Coolidge

Pageants as a means of suffrage propaganda / Hazel MacKaye

Seeking the Negro vote / Ida B. Wells

Votes for women : a symposium by leading thinkers of colored America (The Crises)

The greatest thing / Oreola Williams Haskell

from How it feels to be the husband of a suffragette / Arthur Raymond Brown

from Are women people? / Alice Duer Miller

Letter to the editor of The Outlook / Abby Scott Baker

The crisis / Carrie Chapman Catt

Letter series no.1-10 (Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government)

To NAWSA congressional chairmen / Maud Wood Park

"Silent, silly, and offensive" and "Militants get 3 days; lack time to starve" (The New York Times)

Woman's service or woman suffrage / Alice Hill Chittenden

The young are at the gates / Lavinia Dock

Prison experience with emphasis on the night of terror / Caroline Katzenstein

Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment / Woodrow Wilson

Reminding the President when he landed in Boston (The Suffragist)

Declaration of principles for the rejection of the proposed Susan B. Anthony amendment to the Constitution of the United States / Southern Women's League

A perfect moment / Maud Wood Park

Part four: 1918-1965. from Your vote and how to use it / Gertrude Foster Brown

Fairchild v. Hughes and Leser v. Garnett rulings

Indian Citizenship Act

The "blanket" amendment : a debate / Doris Stevens and Dr. Alice Hamilton

Is woman's suffrage a failure? / Ida M. Tarbell

Address to the Sixth Pan American Conference, Havana, Cuba / Doris Stevens

Resolutions adopted by the Second Convention / El Congreso de Pueblo de Habla Española

Women in politics / Eleanor Roosevelt

President's Commission on the Status of Women / John F. Kennedy

Testimony to the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention / Fannie Lou Hamer

Speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Constance Baker Motley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781598536645

1598536648

OCLC:

1124297227