Votes for Women
Excelsior Editions (Verlag)
978-1-4384-6730-6 (ISBN)
The work for women's suffrage started more than seventy years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and one hundred supporters signed the Declaration of Sentiments asserting that "all men and women are created equal." This convention served as a catalyst for debates and action on both the national and state levels, and on November 6, 1917, New York State passed the referendum for women's suffrage. Its passing in New York signaled that the national passage of suffrage would soon follow. On August 18, 1920, "Votes for Women" was constitutionally granted.
Votes for Women, an exhibition catalog, celebrates the pivotal role the state played in the struggle for equal rights in the nineteenth century, the campaign for New York State suffrage, and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. It highlights the nationally significant role of state leaders in regards to women's rights and the feminist movement through the early twenty-first century and includes focused essays from historians on the various aspects of the suffrage and equal rights movements around New York, providing greater detail about local stories with statewide significance.
The exhibition of the same name, on display at the New York State Museum beginning November 2017, features artifacts from the New York State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as historical institutions and private collections across the state.
Jennifer A. Lemak is Chief Curator of History at the New York State Museum. She is the author of Southern Life, Northern City: The History of Albany's Rapp Road Community and (with Robert Weible and Aaron Noble) An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War, both also published by SUNY Press. Ashley Hopkins-Benton is a Senior Historian and Curator at the New York State Museum and the author of Breathing Life into Stone: The Sculpture of Henry DiSpirito.
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
A Special Message from Governor Andrew M.Cuomo
Message from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Message from Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul
Message from Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa and Commissioner of Education Mary Ellen Elia
Introduction
Section 1. Agitate! Agitate!, 1776–1890
In Writing and In Speech
Petitioning the New York State Government
Ernestine L. Rose
Reform Breeds Reform
What Was It Like for a Woman in the Early Nineteenth Century?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls, 1848
Rochester, 1848
Essay—“All Men and Women Are Created Equal”: The Legacy of Seneca Falls
Judith Wellman
Defining citizenship
Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin Wright
Ladies as Merchants?
1850: First National Women’s Rights Convention, Worcester, Massachusetts
Amelia Bloomer and The Lily
Dress Reform
Susan B. Anthony
Lifelong Partners: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Addressing the New York State Legislature, 1854
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Sojourner Truth
1860 Convention, New York City
After the Civil War
The American Equal Rights Association
The Fourteenth Amendment
The 1867 New York State Constitutional Convention
The Fifteenth Amendment
Essay—Breaking the Law for Freedom: The Campaign of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience for the Vote
Sally Roesch Wagner
The Suffrage Movement Splits: NWSA and AWSA
The 1872 Election and Sixteen Rochester Women
Essay—“Bound Together by the Ties of Humanity”: Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet
Susan Goodier
Pre-Suffrage Women Who Ran for President
History of Woman Suffrage
The Woman’s Bible
Essay—A “Monstrous Absurdity”: The 1886 Suffrage Protest of the Statue of Liberty
Lauren C. Santangelo
Section 2. Winning the Vote, 1890–1920
Creation of the National American Women Suffrage Association
The New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Clubwomen Lead the Charge, 1890–1910
Lifting as We Climb
Essay—“Give Her of the Fruit of Her Hands”: Women’s Suffrage Activity on the Buffalo-Niagara Frontier
Shannon M. Risk
Elizabeth and Anne Miller: A Mother-Daughter Suffrage Team
Harriet May Mills
Women, Suffrage, and Capital Punishment: The Roxy Druse Case
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: Ally or Enemy to Suffrage?
The New York Suffrage Campaign of 1894
Essay—“Just Cause to Feel Proud”: Chautauqua County’s Leading Role in Grassroots Suffrage Activism
Traci Langworthy
The New Woman: Changing Women, Changing Leaders, and Changing Strategies
Madam C. J. Walker
Harriot Stanton Blatch
Women’s Political Union
Carrie Chapman Catt
Courting Working Women and Immigrants: Lillian Wald, Henry Street Settlement
Shirtwaist Workers: the Uprising of 20,000 and the Death of 146
Frances Perkins
Suffrage Goes Public
Albany’s Artist and Suffragist
Alice Paul and the Federal Amendment
Women Opposed to Suffrage
Gearing Up for the New York State Referendum: the Politics of Suffrage
Essay—“These Model Families”: Romance, Marriage, and Family in the New York Woman Suffrage Movement
Jessica Derleth
1915 Vote: The Empire State Campaign Committee Versus the Women’s Political Union
1917 vote
Essay—Recognizing Rights: Men in the Woman Suffrage Campaign
Karen Pastorello
Fight for the Amendment
The “Winning Plan”
The United States Goes to War
Voting on the Amendment
League of Women Voters
Section 3. The Continuing Fight for Equal Rights, 1920–present
Equal Rights Amendment
Essay—“An Infusion of Hope”: New York Women in the Post-Suffrage Era
Robert Chiles
The Birth Control Movement
The Modern First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt
Early Pioneers in New York State Government
Betty Friedan and Pauli Murray Create an NAACP For Women
Publishing the Stories Women Want to Read
“Fighting Shirley Chisholm—Unbought and Unbossed”
Battling Bella Abzug
The Year of the Woman
Creative Women’s Collective
Preserving Memories and Carrying Forward the Message
Conclusion
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Excelsior Editions |
| Vorwort | MaryEllen Elia, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kathy Hochul |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 390 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-6730-3 / 1438467303 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-6730-6 / 9781438467306 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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