A Simple Justice : Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote / Melanie Beals Goan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goan, Melanie Beals, 1972- author.

Series:

Kentucky scholarship online.

Kentucky scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]

Summary:

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the change was not welcomed by people of all genders in politically and religiously conservative Kentucky. As a result, the suffrage movement in the Commonwealth involved a tangled web of stakeholders, entrenched interest groups, unyielding constitutional barriers, and activists with competing strategies. In 'A Simple Justice', Melanie Beals Goan offers a new and deeper understanding of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky by following the people who labored long and hard to see the battle won.

Contents:

Cover

Praise for A Simple Justice

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. The He-Women Come

2. Jars of Clay

3. To Frankfort

4. Woman Triumphant

5. How Do You Spell Equality?

6. Rescission

7. All Women Cannot Be Heroes

8. Louisville Awakens

9. Meeting New Work with New Methods

10. The Pink Tea Stage

11. Working for Peace

12. Ignis Fatuus

13. Twenty-Four

14. An Instrument to Help Humanity

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Further Reading

List of Abbreviations

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 9, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8131-8018-X

OCLC:

1162184727