The woman's hour the great fight to win the vote

Nashville, August 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, granting all women the vote, is on the verge of ratification -- or defeat. Out of the thirty-six states needed, thirty-five have approved it, and one last state is still in play -- Tennessee. After a seven-decade crusade to win th...

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Main Author: Weiss, Elaine F., 1952- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2018.
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • To Nashville
  • Lay of the land
  • The feminist peril
  • The woman question
  • Democracy at home
  • The Governor's quandary
  • The blessing
  • On account of sex
  • Front porch
  • Home and Heaven
  • The woman's hour
  • Cranking the machine
  • Prison pin
  • Fieldwork
  • A real and threatening danger
  • War of the roses
  • In justice to womanhood
  • Terrorizing Tennessee manhood
  • Petticoat government
  • Armageddon
  • The hour has come
  • Liberty Bell
  • Election Day.