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Suffrage Reconstructed
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Author : Laura E. Free
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-04
Suffrage Reconstructed written by Laura E. Free and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-04 with History categories.
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction. Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment's language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men's right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women’s rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for the first time as the Amendment was being drafted. To prevent women’s inadvertent enfranchisement, and to incorporate formerly disfranchised black men into the voting polity, the Fourteenth Amendment’s congressional authors turned to gender to define the new American voter. Faced with this exclusion some woman suffragists, most notably Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned to rhetorical racism in order to mount a campaign against sex as a determinant of one’s capacity to vote. Stanton’s actions caused a rift with Frederick Douglass and a schism in the fledgling woman suffrage movement. By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War–era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women’s rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise.
Fighting Chance
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Author : Faye E. Dudden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Fighting Chance written by Faye E. Dudden and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with History categories.
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.
No Vote For Women
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Author : Bernadette Cahill
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-10-09
No Vote For Women written by Bernadette Cahill and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-09 with History categories.
From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. Ignoring all women, black and white, advocates argued that enfranchising black men would solve race problems, masking the effect on women. This book weaves Anthony's and Stanton's campaigns together with national and congressional events, in the process uncovering relationships among these events and revealing the devastating impact on the women and their campaign for civil rights for all citizens.
Reconstruction An Appeal To Congress For Impartial Suffrage
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Author : Fredrick Douglass
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12-24
Reconstruction An Appeal To Congress For Impartial Suffrage written by Fredrick Douglass and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-24 with History categories.
Frederick Douglass, a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank. Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women's rights and Irish home rule. Among Douglass' writings are several autobiographies eloquently describing his experiences in slavery and his life after the Civil War.
Suffrage
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Author : Ellen Carol DuBois
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2021-02-23
Suffrage written by Ellen Carol DuBois and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-23 with History categories.
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this “indispensable” book (Ellen Chesler, Ms. magazine) explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojurner Truth as she “meticulously and vibrantly chronicles” (Booklist) the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a crushing disappointment. DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism. She introduces new champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought the fight to the 20th century, and she shows how African American women, led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, demanded voting rights even as white suffragists ignored them. DuBois explains how suffragists built a determined coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators in forging a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states to set the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the Constitution. In vivid prose, DuBois describes suffragists’ final victories in Congress and state legislatures, culminating in the last, most difficult ratification, in Tennessee. “Ellen DuBois enables us to appreciate the drama of the long battle for women’s suffrage and the heroism of many of its advocates” (Eric Foner, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution). DuBois follows women’s efforts to use their voting rights to win political office, increase their voting strength, and pass laws banning child labor, ensuring maternal health, and securing greater equality for women. Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote is a “comprehensive history that deftly tackles intricate political complexities and conflicts and still somehow read with nail-biting suspense,” (The Guardian) and is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of American democracy.
Reconstruction And Black Suffrage
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Author : Robert Michael Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Landmark Law Cases & American
Release Date : 2001
Reconstruction And Black Suffrage written by Robert Michael Goldman and has been published by Landmark Law Cases & American this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
"Goldman deftly highlights the cases of 'United States v. Reese' and 'United States v. Cruikshank' withing the context of an ongoing power struggle between state and federal authorities and the realities of being black in post-war America."--Back cover.
Reconstruction
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Author : George Sewall Boutwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Reconstruction written by George Sewall Boutwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Fourth of July orations categories.
Reconstruction Black Suffrage And The Rebirth Of American Democracy
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Author : Bedford/St.Martin's
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Release Date : 2020-08-19
Reconstruction Black Suffrage And The Rebirth Of American Democracy written by Bedford/St.Martin's and has been published by Macmillan Higher Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-19 with History categories.
The documents in this collection illustrate the struggle over black voting rights during Reconstruction and the remarkable lengths to which African Americans have gone to secure these rights. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: What were the causes and consequences of the Reconstruction-era expansion of voting rights, and how did black suffrage change the face of American democracy? Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions, and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these documents, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
An Address On Suffrage And Reconstruction The Duty Of The People The President And Congress
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Author : Andrew Jackson Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
An Address On Suffrage And Reconstruction The Duty Of The People The President And Congress written by Andrew Jackson Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with African Americans categories.
Reconstruction And Negro Suffrage
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Author : Oliver Perry Morton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Reconstruction And Negro Suffrage written by Oliver Perry Morton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with African Americans categories.