The Long Campaign: A Biography of Anne Martin

by Anne Bail Howard

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874170923
• ISBN13: 9780874170924
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A facinating history of women's suffrage and Nevada politics

Anne Martin's story is of interest to anyone who enjoys reading of history or politics, particularly of Nevada's history, or of women's struggle to gain suffrage rights. Anne Martin grew up in Nevada in the late 1800's and came of age in the early 1900's. She attended Stanford University, and then worked in England, Washington D.C., and throughout Nevada to attain voting rights for women. (Nevada women gained the right to vote in 1914.) After attaining that goal, Ms. Martin ran for Senate, traveling through the rough countryside to various mining camps and small railroad towns -- a daring feat for a women at that time. After abandoning her own political career, she became active in the peace and equal rights movements on a global scale, decades ahead of the 1960's peace movement. This book is somewhat cumbersome to read, since every fact and reference is painstakingly documented in detail, but the effort is worthwhile.