Oregon Blue Book

Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1895
Genre: Oregon
ISBN:

The Suffragents

The Suffragents
Author: Brooke Kroeger
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438466315

Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights

American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights
Author: Laughlin McDonald
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806186003

The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens. Laughlin McDonald has participated in numerous lawsuits brought on behalf of Native Americans in Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. This litigation challenged discriminatory election practices such as at-large elections, redistricting plans crafted to dilute voting strength, unfounded allegations of election fraud on reservations, burdensome identification and registration requirements, lack of language assistance, and noncompliance with the Voting Rights Act. McDonald devotes special attention to the VRA and its amendments, whose protections are central to realizing the goal of equal political participation. McDonald describes past and present-day discrimination against Indians, including land seizures, destruction of bison herds, attempts to eradicate Native language and culture, and efforts to remove and in some cases even exterminate tribes. Because of such treatment, he argues, Indians suffer a severely depressed socioeconomic status, voting is sharply polarized along racial lines, and tribes are isolated and lack meaningful interaction with non-Indians in communities bordering reservations. Far more than a record of litigation, American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights paints a broad picture of Indian political participation by incorporating expert reports, legislative histories, newspaper accounts, government archives, and hundreds of interviews with tribal members. This in-depth study of Indian voting rights recounts the extraordinary progress American Indians have made and looks toward a more just future.

Women's Movements in the United States

Women's Movements in the United States
Author: Steven M. Buechler
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813515595

Buecheler explains why women's movements arise, the forms of organization they adopt, the diversity of ideologies they espouse, and the class and racial composition of women's movements. He also helps us to understand the roots of countermovements, as well as the mixture of successes and failures that has characterized both past and present women's movements. While recognizing both the setbacks and the victories of the contemporary movement, Buecheler identifies grounds for relative optimism about the lasting consequences of this ongoing mobilization.

The History of Equal Suffrage in Colorado, 1868-1898

The History of Equal Suffrage in Colorado, 1868-1898
Author: Joseph G. Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1898
Genre: Women
ISBN:

Colorado women were enfranchised in 1898. This book details the history of that struggle. It includes a discussion of the growth of Colorado women's clubs as an important factor in the campaign. It also provides lists of suffrage workers and of women who have been elected and appointed to positions in Colorado government in the late nineteenth century.

"The Blue Book"

Author: Frances Maule
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1917
Genre: Women
ISBN:

Maule, sympathetic to women's suffrage, analyzes the arguments for and against the reform.

Gentle Warriors

Gentle Warriors
Author: Barbara Stuhler
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1995
Genre: Suffragists
ISBN: 9780873513180

Author is an alumna of Evanston Township High School, class of 1941.

Before Equal Suffrage

Before Equal Suffrage
Author: Robert J. Dinkin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1995-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313031428

Dispelling the myth that women became involved in partisan politics only after they obtained the vote, this study uses contemporary newspaper sources to show that women were active in the party struggle long before 1920. Although their role was initially limited to attending rallies and hosting picnics, they gradually began to use their pens and voices to support party tickets. By the late 19th century, women spoke at party functions and organized all-female groups to help canvass neighborhoods and get out the vote. In the early suffrage states of the West, they voted in increasing numbers and even held a few offices. Women were particularly active, this book shows, in the minor reformist parties—Populist, Prohibitionist, Socialist, and Progressive—but eventually came to play a role in the major parties as well. Prominent suffrage leaders, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, entered the partisan arena in order to promote their cause. By the time the suffrage amendment was ratified, women were deeply involved in the mainstream political process.