Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged EditionCentury of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women’s voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics. |
Contents
The Position of American Women up to 1800 | 3 |
Early Steps toward Equal Education | 22 |
The Beginnings of Organization among Women 338 | 38 |
The Beginnings of Reform | 57 |
The Seneca Falls Convention 1848 | 66 |
From Seneca Falls to the Civil War | 73 |
PART | 97 |
The Civil War | 99 |
The Reform Era and Womans Rights | 195 |
The Unification of the Suffrage Movement | 208 |
Entering the Twentieth Century | 221 |
Into the Mainstream of Organized Labor | 233 |
The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age 19061913 | 241 |
New Life in the Federal Amendment 19141916 | 255 |
The Turn of the Tide 19161918 | 269 |
Who Opposed Woman Suffrage? | 286 |
The Intellectual Progress of Women 18601875 | 108 |
Women in the Trade Unions 18601875 | 126 |
The Emergence of a Suffrage Movement | 136 |
First Victories in the West | 149 |
Breaking Ground for Suffrage | 157 |
The Growth of Womens Organizations | 171 |
Women in the Knights of Labor and the Early A F of L | 185 |
A HardWon Victory 19181920 | 300 |
Conclusion | 318 |
Afterword | 326 |
Bibliographical Summary | 338 |
Acknowledgments | 385 |