The campaign for woman suffrage in Virginia
Title:
The campaign for woman suffrage in Virginia
Author:
Tarter, Brent, author.
ISBN:
9781467144193
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Physical Description:
206 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
Series:
American Heritage
American heritage (Charleston, S.C.)
General Note:
Series title from publisher's Website.
Complements the Library of Virginia's 2020 exhibition "We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia."--Accompanying material.
Commissioned by the Library of Virginia to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote--Accompanying material.
Contents:
Foreword, by Sandra Gioia Treadway -- Acknowledgements -- Let Our Vote Be Cast: An Introduction -- No Woman Sole or Covert: Virginia Women and the Vote before 1920 -- Work Like Hell and Educate: The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia -- Everlastingly At It: Organizing Virginia Suffragists -- Constant Agitation: The Congressional Union/National Woman's Party -- A Determined and Aggressive Lobby: Success in 1920 -- A Day of Triumph and Dignity: Virginia Women Vote -- The Rest of Their Lives: Virginia Women and the Vote after 1920 -- Appendix: Virginia Suffragists and Anti-Suffragists -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
Abstract:
"In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting rights across the nation. Virginia suffragists were a part of that victory, although their role has been nearly forgotten. They marched in parades, rallied at the state capitol, spoke to crowds on street corners, staffed booths at fairs, lobbied legislators, picketed the White House and even went to jail. The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia reveals how women created two statewide organizations to win the right to vote. At the centenary of the movement, these remarkable women can at last be recognized for their important contributions."-- Back cover.
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