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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn abo...
Anne Myra Benjamin, Ph.D. grew up in Washington, D.C. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Chicago, and received her doctorate in French Literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Women Against Equality, her sixth book, was inspired by a debate she heard in 1978 between Bella Abzug and Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment. The author currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to write about the history of American women.
Published between 1881 and 1922, 'History of Woman Suffrage' is a groundbreaking six-volume set that chronicles the struggle for women's rights in the United States. Written by various authors, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, this seminal work provides a comprehensive overview of the suffrage movement, highlighting key events, influential leaders, and political debates of the time. The volumes are rich in primary sources such as speeches, letters, and legislative documents, offering readers a firsthand account of the fight for equality. The literary style is informative and persuasive, appealing to both scholars and general readers interested in women's history and social activism. The author's meticulous research and passionate advocacy for women's suffrage illuminate the enduring significance of the movement. By contextualizing the struggles and victories of early feminists, 'History of Woman Suffrage' sheds light on the ongoing quest for gender equality and political empowerment. This essential collection is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the legacy of women's suffrage in the United States.
Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, impressions and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain most basic civil rights. Know your history! ...
Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Congregational Home Missionary Society's Executive Committee, 1883/84-1907/08.
During the first half of the twentieth century Grace Abbott (1878-1939) and her sister Edith (1876-1957) worked tirelessly to correct many of our nation's most serious problems. In this vividly detailed and balanced biography, Lela B. Costin has given these two remarkable women their due. From the Progressive Era through the New Deal, the Abbott sisters were an integral part of the debate that raged around the issues of suffrage, workers' rights, child labor laws, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, the "immigrant problem," tenement housing, social security, emergency relief programs, and the peace movement. Refusing to claim any of the special "feminine" insights often attributed to their c...