The woman's hour : the last furious fight to win the vote Elaine Weiss

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Elaine, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--19th Amendment--History.

United States.

Women--Suffrage--Tennessee--History--20th century.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century.

Suffragists--Tennessee--History--20th century.

Suffragists.

Suffragists--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

404 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Viking, [2018]

Summary:

"Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--Women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

To Nashville

Lay of the land

The feminist peril

The woman question

Democracy at home

The governor's quandary

The blessing

On account of sex

Front porch

Home and Heaven

The woman's hour

Cranking the machine

Prison pin

Fieldwork

A real and threatening danger

War of the roses

In justice to womanhood

Terrorizing Tennessee manhood

Petticoat government

Armageddon

The hour has come

Liberty Bell

Election Day.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-404) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Weiss, Elaine F., 1952- Woman's hour.

ISBN:

9780525429722

0525429727

OCLC:

1031056631