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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...

From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. This book weaves Anthony's and Stanton's campaigns together with national and congressional events.

When women picketed the White House demanding the vote on January 10, 1917, they broke new ground in political activism. Demanding that President Wilson influence Congress, they marched in the streets in the nation s first ever coast-to-coast campaign for political rights. Women were imprisoned for peaceful protests, went on hunger strikes and were beaten and tortured by authorities. But they won the 19th Amendment, ensuring that the right to vote could not be denied because of gender. Their successful nonviolent civil rights campaign established a precedent for those that followed, giving...