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List of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables ...............................................
List of Abbreviations ......................................................
Acknowledgements .........................................................
Introduction .................................................................
Chapter 1: Beginnings ....................................................
Chapter 2: Energy and Fracture, 1914-1917 ...........................
Chapter 3: Suffrage in Wartime ..........................................
Chapter 4: Delaware: The Final State? .................................
Epilogue: After Suffrage .................................................
Appendix A: Delaware Suffrage Leaders ........................
Appendix B: Delaware Women's Suffrage Timeline.............
Notes .........................................................................
Bibliography ..................................................................
Index ...........................................................................
About the author
ANNE M. BOYLAN is a professor emerita of history and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware in Newark. She is the author of Sunday School: The Formation of An American Institution, 1790-1880; The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840; and Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents.
Summary
Offers the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarship on the national story. The book traces how white and African American women organised and advocated for ‘votes for women’, first by revising the state constitution and then through a federal amendment.
