Important people, places, and terms -- Chronology -- Narrative overview -- Prologue -- The origins of the women's suffrage movement -- The beginning of change -- A question of rights -- A movement divided -- A changing of the guard -- Conservatives and radicals -- Winning the vote -- The legacy of women's suffrage -- Biographies -- Susan B. Anthony: women's suffrage pioneer and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association -- Carrie Chapman Catt: president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association -- Laura Clay: promoter of state-based suffrage and opponent of the Nineteenth Amendment -- Abigail Scott Duniway: women's suffrage activist in the Pacific Northwest -- Lucretia Coffin Mott: religious leader, abolitionist, and women's suffrage pioneer -- Alice Paul: founder and president of the National Womans Party -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: women's suffrage pioneer and president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association -- Lucy Stone: women's suffrage pioneer and founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association -- Sojourner Truth: abolitionist and women's rights activist -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett: journalist, suffragist, and civil-rights activist -- Woodrow Wilson: President of the United States of America during ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment -- Victoria C. Woodhull -- Women's rights advocate and presidential candidate -- Primary sources -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, 1848 Seneca Falls Convention -- Sojourner Truths "An't I a woman?" speech -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton addresses the 1869 National Woman Suffrage Convention -- Divisions at the 1869 American Equal Rights Association meeting -- The great secession speech of Victoria C. Woodhull -- Susan B. Anthony reacts to her conviction for unlawful voting -- Francis Parkman recounts arguments against womens suffrage -- Belle Kearney discusses womens suffrage in the South -- Picketing and prison: the experiences of Ernestine Hara Kettler -- The Nineteenth Amendment -- Sources for further study.
Summary
"Examines the history of the women's suffrage movement and its impact on American life and society. Features include narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and annotated sources for further study"--Provided by publisher.
