Belva Lockwood the woman who would be president
In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confronting the ma...
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New York ; London :
New York University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Early a widow
- In search of a new identity
- Apprenticeship
- Becoming a lawyer
- Notorious ladies
- A tougher fight
- Woman lawyer
- The practice of law
- Lady lobbyist
- Lockwood for president
- Life on the platform
- Lay down your arms!
- The power of association
- Pushing for place
- A world's fair and a million-dollar case
- Aging soldiers of cause.
