Bibliograph

Century of struggle, the woman's rights movement in the United States

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Century of struggle, the woman's rights movement in the United States

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Century of struggle

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

34355177

Sub title

the woman's rights movement in the United States

Summary

"The story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics. It is difficult to imagine a time when women were largely removed by custom, practice, and law from the formal political rights and responsibilities that supported and sustained the nation's young democracy. For sheer drama the suffrage movement has few equals in modern American political history."--Back cover

Table Of Contents

The Position of American Women up to 1800 -- Early Steps toward Equal Education -- Beginnings of Organization among Women -- Beginnings of Reform -- Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- From Seneca Falls to the Civil War -- Civil War -- Intellectual Progress of Women, 1860-1875 -- Women in the Trade Unions, 1860-1875 -- Emergence of a Suffrage Movement -- First Victories in the West -- Breaking Ground for Suffrage -- Growth of Women's Organizations -- Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A.F. of L. -- The Reform Era and Woman's Rights -- Unification of the Suffrage Movement -- Entering the Twentieth Century -- Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor -- The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age, 1906-1913 -- New Life in the Federal Amendment, 1914-16 -- Turn of the Tide, 1916-18 -- Who Opposed Woman Suffrage -- A Hard-Won Victory, 1918-1920 -- Conclusion

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Woman's rights movement in the United States

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