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The Concise history of woman suffrage, selections from the classic work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper, edited by Mari Jo and Paul Buhle

Label
The Concise history of woman suffrage, selections from the classic work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper, edited by Mari Jo and Paul Buhle
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Concise history of woman suffrage
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
3649748
Responsibility statement
edited by Mari Jo and Paul Buhle
Sub title
selections from the classic work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper
Summary
Contains primary source material"The Buhles have carefully selected the best from the mass of material in the classic six-volume History of Woman Suffrage and included eighty-two documents in this version. The volume contains the work of many reform agitators, among them Angelina Grimke, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Sojourner Truth, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper."--Book cover
Table Of Contents
To the Civil War. Prologue ; Antislavery origins ; The convention as agitation ; Temperance and woman's rights ; End of an era -- The Civil War to 1885. Woman's National Loyal League ; Reconstruction alliances ; An independent strategy -- 1885 to 1920. The old and new leadership ; The convention as a platform ; State victories and defeats ; The federal amendment
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