History of the American Suffragist Movement

"Her fluid writing and use of primary sources draw readers into a thoughtful and compelling study of this history." - School Library Journal "...a coherent narrative history as it was viewed by the suffragists themselves...Recommended for general readers and undergraduate students." - Choice "This book should be in core collection material about women's rights and suffrage. Highly Recommended." - The Book Report "Her text is easy to read, and Weatherford is adept at giving historical characters personality...this book would be useful to undergraduates, high school students, or the general public." - Library Journal

Tracing the roots of the movement to the independent women of seventeenth-century colonial America, Weatherford chronicles the long and tortuous campaign to secure women's suffrage. She emphasizes the connections of the women's movement, which rested on profound moral convictions, to the other great nineteenth-century reform movements of abolitionism and temperance. She recounts the inspiring triumphs as well as the heartbreaking setbacks of the movement, which culminated in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.