Recasting the vote : how women of color transformed the suffrage movement / Cathleen D. Cahill.
"In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bot...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: | 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prelude and Parades, 1890-1913. Woman versus the Indian: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin ; Our Sisters in China Are Free: Mabel Ping-Hua Lee ; Tierra e Idioma: Nina Otero-Warren ; Race Rhymes: Carrie Williams Clifford ; The Indian Princess Who Wasn't There: The Strange Case of Dawn Mist ; An Ojibwe Woman in Washington, D.C.: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin ; Come, All Ye Women, Come!
- At the Crossroads of Suffrage and Citizenship, 1913-1917. The Problem of the Color Line: Carrie Williams Clifford ; The Indians of Today: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin ; To Speak for the Spanish American Women: Nina Otero-Warren ; The Application of Democracy to Women: Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
- The War Comes, 1917-1920. Mr. President, Why Not Make America Safe for Democracy? Carrie Williams Clifford ; Pacific Currents ; Americanize the First American: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin ; Courting Political Ruin: Nina Otero-Warren
- Our Women Take Part, 1920-1928. Everyone Who Had Labored in the Cause ; The Value of the Ballot ; A Terrible Blot on Civilization: Carrie Williams Clifford ; Candidata Republicana: Nina Otero-Warren ; To Help Indians Help Themselves: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
- Epilogue: Remembering and Forgetting.