And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote

by Johanna Neuman

Book Overview

A comprehensive history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, from 1776 to 1965

Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton first publicly demanded the right to vote at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. And they end in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, removing sexual barriers to the vote. And Yet They Persisted traces agitation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1119530830
• ISBN13: 9781119530831
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"