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From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. Ignoring all women, black and white, advocates argued that enfranchising black men would solve race problems, masking the effect on women. This book weaves Anthony's and Stanton's campaigns together with national and congressional events, in the process uncovering relationships among these events and revealing the devastating impact on the women and their campaign for civil rights for all citizens.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
¿1.¿The Negro's Hour
¿2.¿Men Only
¿3.¿Women Need Not Apply
¿4.¿On Their Own
¿5.¿That Word "Male"
¿6.¿Petitions, Obstruction and Reform
¿7.¿The American Equal Rights Association
¿8.¿The Fourteenth Amendment and That Word "Male"
¿9.¿Censorship, Suffrage Campaigning and New York State
10.¿Campaign Penury, Organizational Skills and Cooperation
11.¿Equal Suffrage for Washington, D.C.
12.¿Woman's Champion
13.¿Stanton Speaks
14.¿The War of the Politicians
15.¿Enter Kansas
16.¿The End of Cooperation
17.¿Stepping Forward in Kansas
18.¿Not Another Man
19.¿AERA Discord
20.¿Anti-woman Sentiment
21.¿Fighting on Two Fronts
22.¿Albany Goes Down
23.¿Kansas Heats Up
24.¿Another Albany Skirmish
25.¿The Women's Money Stolen
26.¿Reinforcements
27.¿Kansas: Men v. Citizens
28.¿Desperate Measures
29.¿Waiting for Train
30.¿Unprecedented Audiences
31.¿Against Men's Arguments Against Women
32.¿Campaigning for the Forgotten Woman
33.¿"One of the best misunderstood statesmen"
34.¿"Women at the polls"
35.¿"No press, pulpit or politicians"
36.¿Finding Their Voice
37.¿The Aftermath
Epigraphs
Abbreviations
Appendix A: States Where Woman Suffrage Failed During Reconstruction
Appendix B: Milestones of the 14th Amendment State by State
Appendix C: 1860 Census Data Related to Slaves
Appendix D: 1860 Census Data Showing Potential Voting Population Totals
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Bernadette Cahill is an independent scholar and writer. She has written about women's rights and history throughout her professional life and has had many articles published on woman suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment. She divides her time between Louisiana and North Carolina.
