Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote: The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920

ISBN-13: 9781935106821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 146 str.

Bernadette Cahill

Opis

Women from all over Arkansas left out of the civil rights granted by the post Civil War Reconstruction Amendments took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage work in Arkansas, but also for the state s contribution to the nationwide nonviolent campaign for women s suffrage that reached its climax between 1913 and 1920. Based on original research, Cahill s book relates the history of some of those who contributed to this victorious struggle, reveals long-forgotten photographs, includes a map of the locations of meetings and rallies, and provides a list of Arkansas suffragists who helped ensure that discrimination could no longer exclude women from participation in the political life of the state and nation."