New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States

by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler

Book Overview

There is currently a great deal of interest in the Southern suffrage movement, but until now historians have had no comprehensive history of the woman suffrage movement in the South, the region where suffragists had the hardest fight and the least success. This important new book focuses on eleven of the movement's most prominent leaders at the regional and national levels, exploring the range of opinions within this group, with particular emphasis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195082451
• ISBN13: 9780195082456
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"