Bernadette Cahill: 2 books
Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote
The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Women from all over Arkansas—left out of the civil rights granted by the post–Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state’s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage...
Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote
The First Civil Rights Struggle of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
When women picketed the White House demanding the vote on January 10, 1917, they broke new ground in political activism. Demanding that President Wilson influence Congress, they marched in the streets in the nation’s first ever coast-to-coast campaign for political rights. Women were imprisoned...