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Defining Documents in American History: The Women’s Suffrage Movement

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


Early Rights & Advocacy (1776–1851)


Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies”—Letter to John Adams


New Jersey Constitution of 1776 (Article IV on Voting)


Judith Sargent Murray: “On the Equality of the Sexes”


New Jersey Election Law Restricting Suffrage to White Males


Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman


New York Married Women’s Property Act


Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments


Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”


Lucy Stone: “Disappointment is the Lot of Women”


Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1860s–1870s)


Constitution of the American Equal Rights Association


Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution


Wyoming Territory Suffrage Act


An Act Conferring upon Women the Elective Franchise


Victoria Woodhull: Lecture on Constitutional Equality


Susan B. Anthony: Letters concerning Casting a Vote in the 1872 Federal Election


Susan B. Anthony: “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”


Bradwell v. Illinois


Minor v. Happersett


Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Solitude of Self”


State Campaigns & the National Movement (1880s–1912)


Frances Willard: “Temperance and Home Protection”


National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) Constitution


Kansas Municipal Suffrage Law (1887)


Colorado Suffrage Referendum (1893)


Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women


Mary Church Terrell: “The Progress of Colored Women”


Ida B. Wells: “Lynch Law in America”


Washington State Equal Suffrage Amendment


California Equal Suffrage Proposition 4


Oregon Equal Suffrage Amendment


Federal Amendment Campaign (1913–1920)


Program of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession


“Suffrage Deputation Interviews President Wilson”


Guinn v. United States


“1000 Pickets Will Heckle Wilson, Says Mrs. Quay”


Prison Writings of a Radical Suffragist


Jeannette Rankin: House Speech on Suffrage


Woodrow Wilson: “Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment”


Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


Tennessee Senate Joint Resolution 1


U.S. Proclamation Certifying Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment


Volume 2



Full Table of Contents


Aftermath & Expansion of Voting Rights (1920–Present)


Carrie Chapman Catt: “The Nation Calls”


Leser v. Garnett


Cable Act


Indian Citizenship Act


Lane v. Wilson


Magnuson Act


Civil Rights Act of 1957


Twenty-Third Amendment


Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


Civil Rights Act of 1964


Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention


Voting Rights Act of 1965


Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965


Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections


Katzenbach v. Morgan


Oregon v. Mitchell


Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970


Shirley Chisholm: “For the Equal Rights Amendment”


Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


Equal Rights Amendment


Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975


Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982


National Voter Registration Act


Help America Vote Act


George W. Bush: State of the Union Address


“Women in Iraq: Background and Issues for U.S. Policy”


Shelby County v. Holder


Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee


“The Voting Rights Act’s Legacy Is Under Threat”


Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act)


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography