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I was horrified when my children came home from 2nd grade (6 years apart, same school, same teacher in a solid Seattle Public school) and each gravely told me that they were learning the first use of civil protest was by the Civil Rights Movement for their MLK Day celebration assembly. Each time, I asked if their teacher had mentioned the Suffragettes. Each time, she had not. While as immensely crucial, invaluable and ongoing as the Civil Rights Movement is and must remain, I have accounts of ancestors who were suffragettes and who were arrested and imprisoned for daring to say that women are not property, have equal intellect and should have the agency to vote. My great-grandmother took my grandmother as a school girl to Washington DC from the Willamette Valley just after women won the right to vote so that her child would have an understanding of where her vote as an adult would go, why it is so important and precious and hard-earned. While my daughters were both able to meet my grandmother before her death, they will only be the 4th generation of women in the USA who will reach their majority being assured of a federal vote. As the treatment of women across our globe demonstrates, this should not be glossed over. It's vital we acknowledge all of our history and I commend this book for its effort to do so as well as for laying out the interconnections between the Women's and Civil Rights Movements.


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The Woman Hour The Great Fight to Win the Vote Elaine Weiss 9780525429722 Books Reviews

The WOMEN'S HOUR is a must read for all citizens. It gave me a great appreciation for the comittentment the women of the movement had for generations to win the right to vote. Elaine Weiss humanizes the parties of both sides for the knock down, drag out battle for Women to vote. It makes me want to be the first in line to to vote in the coming election. Thank you Elaine Weiss for bringing this to my attention in the busy world we live in.
The author's exhaustive research was obvious. She introduced us to some truly committed and courageous individuals who paved the way for all women in this country. Because the reader knows the ending, however, the details become somewhat cumbersome and will have a tendency to skim which is unfortunate.

Most interesting was the interplay between the civil rights goals for blacks and the demands of the suffragettes. It seems like women's rights have always taken a back seat throughout history. A continuing struggle even in the 21st century.
I envy Elaine Weiss for unearthing this largely untold story of how Tennessee became the crucial 40th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, thereby making Women's Suffrage the law of the land. Imagine Tennessee, a southern state, and the clock in running out on ratification. It's a broiling hot summer in July 1920. Will "the Suffs" hold onto their slim margin after months of canvassing Tennessee's Senate and House-- needless to say, composed strictly of white men--or will "the Antis" prevail? What a cliffhanger.

I didn't know any of this history, and I like to think I'm an educated person.
This would be a good doctoral dissertation because it is meticulously researched but it is so detailed as to become mind numbingly boring. In the end, I could only skim it. I stumbled onto interesting parts but most of it just wasn't. The main take away is that we are still living through the same attempts to limit the vote much of it on the basis of race.
Weiss's spirited prose keeps the reader on the edge of his/her seat while recounting the ratification of the19th Amendment. Although 26 nations had already granted their female citizens the vote, it wasn't until 1920 that MOST American women could partake in national elections.

In 1848, Seneca Falls, NY hosted the First Women's Rights Convention. Based on the Declaration of Independence, the attendees drafted 8 sentiments of equal rights that women desired. It was a man, Frederick Douglass, who urged the Convention to add a 9th sentiment the right to vote. Douglass asserted that true citizenship could not be attained without the right to the ballot. With this, the Suffragette movement in the USA was born.

The Susan B. Anthony Amendment (#19) passed by one vote in both houses of Congress in 1919. Within a year, a two-thirds majority of the existing states needed to ratify the Amendment i.e. 36 states. By June of 1920, 9 states rejected the Amendment, 3 states refused to even consider ratification, and 35 states ratified the Amendment. (The reader will be amazed at which states voted no.) The fate of women's suffrage was left to ratification in the Tennessee legislature. The author introduces fascinating details about the many players in this drama Tennessee politicians, Republican and Democrat, a sitting President and candidates running in the 1920 Presidential election, Anti-Suffragettes and Suffragettes. (What a shock to learn that both Eleanor Roosevelt and Edith Wilson were on the side of the Anti's!) Many of the Suffragettes had earned their political chops as Abolishionists. They were fighting for the vote for all women regardless of race. Anti's raised the alarm about the dissipation of state's rights and the polluting nature of politics on motherhood and southern family life. They preached to the prejudice against Negro women having the vote. Tensions mounted in the Tennessee summer heat, as both sides exhorted to lies, influence peddling and bribery. By whom and how were legislators in both Tennessee houses influenced? The vote was a cliff hanger!

Ten million women voted for the first time on November 2,1920, but two states denied black women the right to vote. From Boston to Orlando, barriers were created to prevent black women from voting and some blacks, men and women, were killed in their attempts to vote. In Chapter 23, entitled Election Day, Weiss chronicles the delayed suffrage for other minorities in America. She highlights the current political efforts to disenfranchise blocs of US citizens. The battle for the ballot, begun so long ago, rages on.
I was horrified when my children came home from 2nd grade (6 years apart, same school, same teacher in a solid Seattle Public school) and each gravely told me that they were learning the first use of civil protest was by the Civil Rights Movement for their MLK Day celebration assembly. Each time, I asked if their teacher had mentioned the Suffragettes. Each time, she had not. While as immensely crucial, invaluable and ongoing as the Civil Rights Movement is and must remain, I have accounts of ancestors who were suffragettes and who were arrested and imprisoned for daring to say that women are not property, have equal intellect and should have the agency to vote. My great-grandmother took my grandmother as a school girl to Washington DC from the Willamette Valley just after women won the right to vote so that her child would have an understanding of where her vote as an adult would go, why it is so important and precious and hard-earned. While my daughters were both able to meet my grandmother before her death, they will only be the 4th generation of women in the USA who will reach their majority being assured of a federal vote. As the treatment of women across our globe demonstrates, this should not be glossed over. It's vital we acknowledge all of our history and I commend this book for its effort to do so as well as for laying out the interconnections between the Women's and Civil Rights Movements.