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a great addition to our knowledge of women's suffrage
A wonderful addition to the historiography on the woman suffrage movement. Wheeler provides a jumpstart to examining the specifics of the woman suffrage movement in the South. While she admittedly focuses on 11 specific leaders, her study incorporates a much broader scope as she takes us on a journey to explore the specifically Southern nature of the arguments for...
Published on April 2, 2000
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I Am Woman, A Southern Woman With a Voice.
Hazel Brannon Smith won the Putlizer Prize for editorial writing in 1964. Born in Gadsden, Alabama, she died nearly destitute in a nursing home in Tennessee in 1994. She not only spoke up for women's rights but for those of the poor South who could not speak for themselves. She exposed the Klan death threats and cross-burnings in Mississippi and suffered for her stand...
Published on September 27, 2005 by Betty Burks
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5.0 out of 5 stars
a great addition to our knowledge of women's suffrage,
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This review is from: New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (Paperback)
A wonderful addition to the historiography on the woman suffrage movement. Wheeler provides a jumpstart to examining the specifics of the woman suffrage movement in the South. While she admittedly focuses on 11 specific leaders, her study incorporates a much broader scope as she takes us on a journey to explore the specifically Southern nature of the arguments for women's votes in the early 20th century. A great read!
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I Am Woman, A Southern Woman With a Voice.,
By Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (Hardcover)
Hazel Brannon Smith won the Putlizer Prize for editorial writing in 1964. Born in Gadsden, Alabama, she died nearly destitute in a nursing home in Tennessee in 1994. She not only spoke up for women's rights but for those of the poor South who could not speak for themselves. She exposed the Klan death threats and cross-burnings in Mississippi and suffered for her stand against violence, and economic strangulation in the name of "telling the people the truth and defending their freedom."It was considered harmful for females to ride bicycles in case it might harm their reproductive capability. They adopted trousers (bloomers) so that they could ride them freely. Through the suffragist press, women reinvented themselves as professional journalists, policy experts and savvy visionaries. Susan B. Anthony's 'Revolution' and 'Farmer's Wife' publications led the way for the women to demonstrate for the right to vote. They left a heritage of feisty optimism and stealthy radicalism which forced a nation to live up to its ideals of 'representative democracy.' More women in the South are becoming involved in politics. We even had a nominee for Mayor of Knoxville at the last election. Louisiana has a female Governor. What's this world coming to? The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose -- But were always a rose. |
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New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States by Marjorie Julian Spruill (Paperback - July 1, 1993)
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