Recasting the vote : how women of color transformed the suffrage movement /
Cathleen D. Cahill.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prelude and Parades, 1890-1913. -- Woman versus the Indian / Our sisters in China are free / Tierra e idioma / Race rhymes / The Indian princess who wasn't there / An Ojibwe woman in Washington, D.C. / Come, all ye women, come! -- At the crossroads of suffrage and citizenship, 1913-1917 -- The problem of the color line / The Indians of today / To speak for the Spanish American women / The application of democracy to women / The war comes, 1917-1920 -- Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy? / Pacific currents -- Americanize the first American / Courting political ruin / Our women take part, 1920-1928 -- Everyone who had labored in the cause -- The value of the ballot -- A terrible blot on civilization / Candidata republicana / To help Indians help themselves / Epilogue : remembering and forgetting. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin -- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -- Nina Otero-Warren -- Carrie Williams Clifford -- the strange case of Dawn Mist -- Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin -- Carrie Williams Clifford -- Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin -- Nina Otero-Warren -- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -- Carrie Williams Clifford -- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin -- Nina Otero-Warren -- Carrie Williams Clifford -- Nina Otero-Warren -- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin --
"In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hau Lee, and Adelina 'Nina' Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment"-- We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York's Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equality for Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, a diverse cadre of extraordinary women struggled to build a movement that would truly include all women, regardless of race or national origin. In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina "Nina" Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. As we celebrate the centennial of a great triumph for the women's movement, Cahill's powerful history reminds us of the work that remains.
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Feminism--History.--United States Minority women activists--History.--United States Suffragists--History.--United States Women--Suffrage--History.--United States