Votes for Women: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation

by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler

Book Overview

A unique collection of scholarly essays and primary documents, Votes for Women brings into sharp focus the suffrage battles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not only does the book examine the struggle at the national level but it looks in depth at how the drama played out in the South and in Tennessee, which in 1920 became the pivotal thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment--thereby making woman suffrage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870498363
• ISBN13: 9780870498367
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"