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The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote / Elaine Weiss.

Summary:
"Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143128991 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 014312899X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 404, 11 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2019. ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment > History.
Women > Suffrage > Tennessee > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > United States > History > 20th century.
Suffragists > Tennessee > History > 20th century.
Suffragists > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.

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Albright Memorial Library 324.623 WEISS (Text) 50686015547867 Storage Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library 324.6 WEI (Text) 37268003021532 AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 324.6 Wei (Text) 00142080 ADULT Non-Fiction Available -
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library 324.623 Wei 2019 (Text) 10HOL00046542+ Adult Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 324.6 Weiss Civil Rights (Text) 39427103511663 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Juniata County Library 324.6 WEI (Text)
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Lehighton Area Memorial Library 324.6 WEI (Text) 30445100208579 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 324.6 WEI 2019 (Text) 31001101832922 Adult Non Fiction Available -
Meyersdale Public Library 324.6 WEISS (Text) 30512005373707 MEYM Non-Fiction Available -
Orwigsburg Area Free Public Library 324.6 WEI (Text) 3OAPL00073220B New Nonfiction Available -


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