Fighting Chance : The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America
Faye E. Dudden
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (296 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Age Is Ripe for the Woman Question; 2. Black Rights, Women's Rights, and Civil War; 3. The "Negro's Hour"; 4. The Struggle for Equal Rights; 5. Kansas; 6. Revolutionary Journalism and Political Opportunism; 7. The Fight over the Fifteenth Amendment; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. - The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? Based on extensive research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to 19th-century political history--a story of how idealists descended to racist betrayal and desperate failure.
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| Emner | African Americans - History - Suffrage - United States
Women - History - Suffrage - United States Women's rights - History African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 19th century. Vis mer... Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Women’s rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Women's rights --United States --History --19th century. Afrikansk-amerikanere Borgerkrig Government - U.S. Interessegrupper Kvinner Law, Politics & Government Political Rights - U.S. Rettigheter Stemmerett Svarte (Folkegruppe) USA |
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| ISBN | 9780199376438. - 9780199772636
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