Votes for Delaware Women

by Anne M. Boylan

Book Overview

Votes for Delaware Women is the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarship of the national story. It looks especially at why, despite decades of suffrage organizing and an epic struggle in Dover, in the spring of 1920, the legislature refused to make Delaware the final state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. The book traces how, starting in the 1890s, white and African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644532077
• ISBN13: 9781644532072
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher