Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa (Iowa Heritage Collection) - Softcover

Noun, Louise Rosenfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813817242 ISBN 13: 9780813817248

Publisher: Iowa State Pr, 1986

Synopsis

To understand fully the history of the woman-suffrage movement in the United States, it is necessary to know how this movement developed within the various states and to trace the effect of the personalities and actions of nationally know suffrage leaders on the emerging state organizations. The Iowa story poignantly reveals the hopes and disappointments of a small band of idealistic women, who were encouraged by politicians to believe that suffrage would be granted to their sex as soon as the Negro was enfranchised. It recounts their first faltering steps toward organization and their courage in the face of ridicule. Dealing primarily with the period of most active agitation in the state, from 1848 until 1872, this book describes the actions of such strong-minded women as Annie Savery of Des Moines, Amelia Bloomer of Council Bluffs, and Carrie Chapman Catt of Mason City who led the national suffrage movement to final victory with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution in 1920.

About this edition

• Publisher: Iowa State Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0813817242
• ISBN 13: 9780813817248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322