How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914

by Rebecca J. Mead

Book Overview

Uncovers how women in the West fought for the right to vote

By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814757227
• ISBN13: 9780814757222
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"