The hast, Hard Fight.
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Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches; Jan2004, p142-146, 5p
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Catt, Carrie Chapman;Catt, Carrie Chapman
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The Suffragents : How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
Brooke Kroeger;Brooke Kroeger
Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History CategoryFina...
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The Suffragents : How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
2017
Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History CategoryFinalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley CollegeThe Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage , which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.
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50 Trailblazers of the 50 States
Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this gorgeously il...
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50 Trailblazers of the 50 States
2019
Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this gorgeously illustrated biography book. With one trailblazer from every state, you'll discover how Rosa Parks from Alabama fought for civil rights, how Barack Obama from Hawaii proved an African-American could be President, how Joe Biden from Delaware protected women from domestic violence and how Betty Ford from Michigan improved treatment for drug addiction. Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer's life, key facts about their achievements and how their trailblazing continues today. By honouring people who strove in the areas of equal rights, feminism and environmentalism/conservation, this fact-packed book celebrates what makes America great, then and now.Alabama: Rosa Parks; Alaska: Margaret Murie; Arizona: Cesar Chavez; Arkansas: All-American Redheads (women's basketball team); California: Colin Kaepernick; Colorado: Corky Gonzales; Connecticut: Rebecca Lobo; Delaware: Joe Biden; Florida: Emma Gonzalez; Georgia: Jackie Robinson; Hawaii: Barack Obama; Idaho: Marilyn Schuler; Illinois: Betty Friedan; Indiana: Eugene V. Debs; Iowa: Carrie Chapman Catt ; Kansas: William Allen White; Kentucky: Muhammad Ali; Louisiana: Norris Henderson; Maine: Dorothea Dix; Maryland: Thurgood Marshall; Massachusetts: W.E.B. DuBois; Michigan: Betty Ford; Minnesota: Maya Moore; Mississippi: Myrlie Evers-Williams; Missouri: Michael Harrington; Montana: Barbara Ehrenreich; Nebraska: Susette La Flesche; Nevada: Velma Bronn Johnson; New Hampshire: Doris Haddock; New Jersey: Paul Robeson; New Mexico: Notah Begay; New York: Margaret Sanger; North Carolina: Jessica McDonald; North Dakota: Dave Archambault; Ohio: LeBron James; Oklahoma: Woody Guthrie; Oregon: Lola Baldwin; Pennsylvania: Rachel Carson; Rhode Island: Marjorie van Vliet; South Carolina: Sarah and Angelina Grimke; South Dakota: Hubert Humphrey; Tennessee: Hattie Caraway; Texas: Lyndon Johnson; Utah: David Nelson; Vermont: Clarina I.H. Nichols; Virginia: Mildred Loving; Washington: Jenny Durkan; West Virginia: Debbie Null; Wisconsin: Robert LaFollette; Wyoming: Harriet Elizabeth Byrd
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Susan Goodier;Karen Pastorello;Susan Goodier;Karen Pastorello
Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New...
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2017
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Vanguard : How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones;Martha S. Jones
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it ...
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Vanguard : How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
2020
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women . Securing their rights required a movement of their own.In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
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Women--Suffrage--United States--History - African Americans--Suffrage--History - African American women social reformers--History - African American women suffragists--HistoryContent provider:
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Votes for Women : An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement.
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Journal of Economic Perspectives; Spring2020, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p3-23, 21p
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Moehling, Carolyn M.;Thomasson, Melissa A.
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Journal of Economic Perspectives; Spring2020, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p3-23, 21p
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Votes for Women : An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement.
Journal of Economic Perspectives; Spring2020, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p3-23, 21p
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment . In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand side, discussing the rise of the women's movement and its alliances with other social movements, and describe how suffragists put pressure on legislators. On the supply side, we draw from theoretical models of suffrage extension to explain why men shared the right to vote with women . Finally, we review empirical studies that attempt to distinguish between competing explanations. We find that no single theory can explain women's suffrage in the United States and note that while the Nineteenth Amendment extended the franchise to women , state-level barriers to voting limited the ability of black women to exercise that right until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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RATIFICATION of constitutional amendments - SUFFRAGE - WOMEN - SOCIAL movements - ELECTIONSContent provider:
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Library of Congress Magazine. Sep/Oct2019, Vol. 8 Issue 5, p23-26. 4p.
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Harriet Tubman : A Life in American History
Kerry Walters;Kerry Walters
Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History is an indispensable resource for high schoo...
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Harriet Tubman : A Life in American History
2020
Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History is an indispensable resource for high school and college students about the life and times of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, who exemplifies how slaves took the initiative to free themselves and others.Harriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work with information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad, work as a military scout during the Civil War, and postwar activism for blacks and women .The book provides valuable context that situates Harriet Tubman against the backdrop of the slavery debate in antebellum America, and the hardships endured by ex-slaves in postbellum America. As such, the timeframe covers nearly a full century, from the first quarter of the 19th to the first quarter of the 20th. In addition to ten biographical chapters and a short timeline, Harriet Tubman includes an interpretive essay reflecting on her importance in American history. The volume also includes an appendix of primary documents about Tubman's life and work, a bibliography, and a number of sidebars and short commentaries embedded in the text, inviting readers to explore connections between Tubman's life and political, intellectual, and social culture.
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Underground Railroad - Antislavery movements--United States - Enslaved persons--United States--Biography - African American women abolitionists--Biography - Fugitive slaves--United States - Abolitionists--BiographyContent provider:
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The Lives of the Constitution : Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America’s Supreme Law
Joseph Tartakovsky;Joseph Tartakovsky
In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and...
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The Lives of the Constitution : Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America’s Supreme Law
2018
In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals—some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Tartakovsky brings to life their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in revolutionary America to the era of Obama and Trump. Sweeping from settings as diverse as Gold Rush California to the halls of Congress, and crowded with a vivid Dickensian cast, Tartakovsky shows how America's unique constitutional culture grapples with questions like democracy, racial and sexual equality, free speech, economic liberty, and the role of government. Joining the ranks of other great American storytellers, Tartakovsky chronicles how Daniel Webster sought to avert the Civil War; how Alexis de Tocqueville misunderstood America; how Robert Jackson balanced liberty and order in the battle against Nazism and Communism; and how Antonin Scalia died warning Americans about the ever-growing reach of the Supreme Court. From the 1787 Philadelphia Convention to the clash over gay marriage, this is a grand tour through two centuries of constitutional history as never told before, and an education in the principles that sustain America in the most astonishing experiment in government ever undertaken.
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Great Lives From History : American Women
Trigg, Mary K.;Trigg, Mary K.
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial ti...
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Great Lives From History : American Women
2016
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present offering a fascinating perspective on important women from U.S. history.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized : Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era
Errol A. Henderson;Errol A. Henderson
The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in t...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized : Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era
2019
The study of the impact of Black Power Movement (BPM) activists and organizations in the 1960s through ʼ70s has largely been confined to their role as proponents of social change; but they were also theorists of the change they sought. In The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized Errol A. Henderson explains this theoretical contribution and places it within a broader social theory of black revolution in the United States dating back to nineteenth-century black intellectuals. These include black nationalists, feminists, and anti-imperialists; activists and artists of the Harlem Renaissance; and early Cold War–era black revolutionists. The book first elaborates W. E. B. Du Bois's thesis of the'General Strike'during the Civil War, Alain Locke's thesis relating black culture to political and economic change, Harold Cruse's work on black cultural revolution, and Malcolm X's advocacy of black cultural and political revolution in the United States. Henderson then critically examines BPM revolutionists'theorizing regarding cultural and political revolution and the relationship between them in order to realize their revolutionary objectives. Focused more on importing theory from third world contexts that were dramatically different from the United States, BPM revolutionists largely ignored the theoretical template for black revolution most salient to their case, which undermined their ability to theorize a successful black revolution in the United States.This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of The Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org, and access the book online at http://muse.jhu.edu/book/67098. It is also available through the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1704.
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African American political activists--History--20th century - Black power--United States--History--20th century - African Americans--Politics and government--20th centuryContent provider:
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Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics
Steven H. Jaffe;Steven H. Jaffe
Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential ma...
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Activist New York : A History of People, Protest, and Politics
2018
Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City's long history of social activism from the 1650's to the 2010's. Bringing these passionate histories alive, Activist New York is a visual exploration of these movements, serving as a companion book to the highly-praised Museum of the City of New York exhibition of the same name. New York's primacy as a metropolis of commerce, finance, industry, media, and ethnic diversity has given it a unique and powerfully influential role in the history of American and global activism. Steven H. Jaffe explores how New York's evolving identities as an incubator and battleground for activists have made it a “machine for change.” In responding to the city as a site of slavery, immigrant entry, labor conflicts, and wealth disparity, New Yorkers have repeatedly challenged the status quo. Activist New York brings to life the characters who make up these vibrant histories, including David Ruggles, an African American shopkeeper who helped enslaved fugitives on the city's Underground Railroad during the 1830s; Clara Lemlich, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who helped spark the 1909 “Uprising of 20,000” that forever changed labor relations in the city's booming garment industry; and Craig Rodwell, Karla Jay, and others who forged a Gay Liberation movement both before and after the Stonewall Riot of June 1969. The city's inhabitants have been at the forefront of social change on issues ranging from religious tolerance and minority civil rights to sexual orientation and economic justice. Across 16 lavishly illustrated chronological chapters focusing on specific historical episodes, Jaffe explores how New York and New Yorkers have changed the way Americans think, feel, and act.
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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
Gordon, Ann D.;Collier-Thomas, Bettye;Gordon, Ann D.;Collier-Thomas, Bettye
Written by leading scholars of African American and women's history, the essays in thi...
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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
1997
Written by leading scholars of African American and women's history, the essays in this volume seek to reconceptualize the political history of black women in the United States by placing them'at the center of our thinking.'The book explores how slavery, racial discrimination, and gender shaped the goals that African American women set for themselves, their families, and their race and looks at the political tools at their disposal. By identifying key turning points for black women , the essays create a new chronology and a new paradigm for historical analysis. The chronology begins in 1837 with the interracial meeting of antislavery women in New York City and concludes with the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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African Americans--Suffrage--History - Women--Suffrage--United States--History - Suffragists--United States--History - African American women social reformers--History - African American women--Political activity--HistoryContent provider:
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The Women's West
Susan Armitage;Elizabeth Jameson;Susan Armitage;Elizabeth Jameson
The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and...
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The Women's West
1987
The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles around the edges of the drama. Molded by the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood, they were passive, dependent, reluctant, and out of place. Men'won'the West. Women , against their better judgement, followed them to this'newly discovered'place and tried to re-create the amenities of the urban East. Or so the myth goes. The Women's West challenges this picture as racist, sexist, and romantic and rejects the customary emphasis of traditional western history on the nineteenth-century frontier, discovered and defined by Anglo men. In its place The Women's West begins the construction of a new western history as complex and varied as the people who lived it. This collection of twenty-one articles creates a multidimensional portrait of western women . The pioneer women presented here were actors in their own lives, not passive participants in their husbands'ventures. They were hardy seekers who came west, sometimes alone, in search of jobs, freedom, or land to homestead. They were political activists who worked tirelessly to win the right to vote and to hold political office. They adapted in practical ways to their own and their families'economic and personal needs in a new environment.
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Women--West (U.S.)--History - Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--History - Women--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers : [2 Volumes]
Helen Rappaport;Helen Rappaport
The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illumin...
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Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers : [2 Volumes]
2001
The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.Despite being marginalized, disenfranchised, impoverished, and oppressed, women have always stepped forward in disproportionate numbers to lead movements for social change. This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world.This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe—women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Nadeshda Krupskaya, the wife of Lenin, spearheaded the drive against illiteracy in post-revolutionary Russia. American Dorothy Day founded the Catholic worker movement. Begum Rokeya Hossain organized a girls'school in Calcutta in 1911. Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. The stories of these women and the hundreds of others collected here will restore missing pages to our history and inspire a new generation of women to change the world.
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Women social reformers--Encyclopedias - Women political activists--Encyclopedias - Women's rights--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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The reader's companion to U.S. women's history
Mankiller, Wilma Pearl;Mankiller, Wilma Pearl
The reader's companion to U.S. women's history
1998
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Women--United States--History--Sources - Women--United States--Social conditions - Feminism--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Myres, Sandra L.;Myres, Sandra L.
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
1982
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Ethics
Roth, John K.;Roth, John K.
The United States at War
Super, John C.;Super, John C.
The United States at War addresses this theme by offering compact surveys of the most ...
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The United States at War
2005
The United States at War addresses this theme by offering compact surveys of the most important military conflicts in which the United States has been involved--from the Revolutionary War through the Iraq War of 2003.
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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
2004; Vol. Volume III
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Dictionary of American History
Kutler, Stanley I.;Kutler, Stanley I.
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sour...
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Dictionary of American History
2003
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day.
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The Reader's Companion to American History
Foner, Eric;Garraty, John Arthur;Society of American Historians;Foner, Eric...
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Gender AND Society.
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