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Title:
Jailed for freedom : a first-person account of the militant fight for women's rights / Doris Stevens ; introduction by Angela P. Dodson.
ISBN:
9780762470365
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Edition:
100th anniversary edition.

First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2020.

©2020
Physical Description:
xxiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published in 1920 by Liveright Publishing Corporation.

"This text has been edited and condensed for clarity and economy"--TItle page verso.
Contents:
Leadership. A militant pioneer: Susan B. Anthony ; A militant general: Alice Paul -- Political action. Women invade the capital ; Women voters organize ; The last deputation to President Wilson -- Militancy. Picketing a president ; The suffrage war policy ; The first arrests ; Ocoquan Workhouse ; August riots ; Prison episodes ; An administration protest: Dudley Field Malone resigns ; The administration yields ; Political prisoners ; The hunger strike: a weapon ; Administration terrorism ; Alice Paul in prison ; The administration outwitted ; Political results ; An interlude (seven months) ; New attacks on the president ; President Wilson appeals to the Senate too late ; More pressure ; The president sails away ; Watchfires of freedom ; Burned in effigy ; Boston militants welcome to the president ; Democratic Congress ends ; A farewell to President Wilson ; President Wilson wins the 64th vote in Paris ; Republican Congress passes Amendment -- Appendices. Text of the National Suffrage Amendment ; Countries in which women vote ; Resolutions demanding investigations ; Suffrage prisoners ; Directors of national campaign executive committees listed by years ; Concerning political prisoners.
Summary:
A first-hand account of how suffragists in the National Woman's Party organized and fought a fierce battle for the passage for the 19th Amendment.
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OCLC Number:
on1108548172
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
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