Woman's Crusade Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

Name: Woman's Crusade Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
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ISBN: 9780230611757

ISBN-10: 0230611753

ISBN-13: 9780230611757

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mary Walton

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Alice Paul began her life as a quiet girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. But as a young woman, an interest in social work brought her to England, where she apprenticed with the militant suffrage movement there, led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters. Upon her return to the United States, Alice founded her own suffrage movement. Calling themselves "Silent Sentinels," she and her followers were the first protestors to picket the White House. Behind bars, they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed and brutalized. Years before Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent resistance, and decades before civil rights demonstrations, Alice Paul and her followers practiced peaceful civil…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 8/17/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue



Quaker, Social Worker, Suffragette!



ï¿½Thrilling Timesï¿½



Philadelphia Story



Marching Where the Men March



ï¿½I Did Not Know Men Could Be Such Fiendsï¿½



The Split



Summer of Discontent



Young Women Go West



Field Trip



Miss Paul and Mr. Wilson



A Martyr Is Born



Silent Sentinels



ï¿½Women Are Always Hippodroning Around Hereï¿½



Banner Days



Pardon to Prison



Night of Terror



Stalemate



Victory!



Forward into Light


Epilogue


Note on Major Sources


Notes


Index