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Women's suffrage in America : an eyewitness history

Author: Elizabeth Frost-Knappman; Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
Publisher: New York : Facts on File, ©1992.
Series: [Facts on File library of American history].; Eyewitness history
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English
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Chronicles the struggle of American women for the right to vote, from 1800 to their victory in 1920. Includes quotations from contemporary witnesses through memoirs, letters, and other documents of the period.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
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Material Type: Biography, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Frost-Knappman; Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
ISBN: 0816023093 9780816023097
OCLC Number: 24319923
Notes: Second series statement from jacket.
Description: ix, 452 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
What do women want? 1800-1834 --
Slavery and suffrage : 1835-1839 --
Women overseas--the World Anti-Slavery Convention : 1840-1847 --
Women of Seneca Falls : 1848-1849 --
Wave of agitation : 1850-1854 --
Whiff of scandal--divorce and reform : 1855-1860 --
Civil Wars : 1861-1865 --
Bitter defeats : 1865-1869 --
Separate paths to suffrage : 1870-1879 --
United once more : 1880-1892 --
End of an era : 1893-1906 --
On strike and on parade : 1907-1916 --
To war and victory : 1917-1920 --
Epilogue.
Series Title: [Facts on File library of American history].; Eyewitness history
Responsibility: Elizabeth Frost and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont.

Abstract:

Chronicles the struggle of American women for the right to vote, from 1800 to their victory in 1920. Includes quotations from contemporary witnesses through memoirs, letters, and other documents of the period.

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