Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Synopsis

For Too Long The History Of How American Women Won The Right To Vote Has Been Told As The Visionary Adventures Of A Few Iconic Leaders, All White And Native-born, Who Spearheaded A National Movement. In This Essential Reconsideration, Susan Ware Uncovers A Much Broader And More Diverse History Waiting To Be Told. Why They Marched Is The Inspiring Story Of The Dedicated Women--and Occasionally Men--who Carried The Banner In Communities Across The Nation, Out Of The Spotlight, Protesting, Petitioning, And Demonstrating For The Right To Become Full Citizens.-- Prologue: A Walk Through Suffrage History -- Part One. Claiming Citizenship: The Trial Of Susan B. Anthony And The Rochester Fifteen -- Sojourner Truth Speaks Truth To Power -- Sister-wives And Suffragists -- Alice Stone Blackwell And The Armenian Crisis Of The 1890s -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman Finds Her Voice -- Part Two. The Personal Is Political: The Shadow Of The Confederacy -- Ida Wells-barnett And The Alpha Suffrage Club -- Two Sisters -- Claiborne Caitlin's Suffrage Pilgrimage -- How It Feels To Be The Husband Of A Suffragette -- The Farmer-suffragettes -- Suffragists Abroad -- Part Three. Winning Strategies: Mountaineering For Suffrage -- Hazel Mackaye And The Allegory Of Woman Suffrage -- Bread And Roses And Votes For Women Too -- Cartooning With A Feminist Twist -- Jailed For Freedom -- Maud Wood Park And The Front Door Lobby -- Tennessee's Perfect 36 -- Epilogue: Leaving All To Younger Hands. Susan Ware. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.