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The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote  Cover Image Book Book

The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote / Elaine Weiss.

Summary:

"Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143128991 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 014312899X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 404, 11 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2019. ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment > History.
Women > Suffrage > Tennessee > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > United States > History > 20th century.
Suffragists > Tennessee > History > 20th century.
Suffragists > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.

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Pocono Mountain Public Library 324.6230973 Wei (Text) 35540000059807 PMPL 2nd Floor Non-Fiction Available -


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