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Title:
The woman's hour [text (large print)] : the great fight to win the vote / Elaine Weiss.
ISBN:
9781432849771
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Waterville : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2018.
Physical Description:
791 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, [2018].
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.
Summary:
An account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.
Corporate Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1027737646
Availability:
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