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Votes for Women!

Table of Contents

Beginnings of the Movement

All Men Are Created Equal
The Second Great Awakening
Abolition and the Early Women's Rights Movement
A God-Given Right to Citizenship
Angels Don't Vote

African-American Men Get the Vote
The Suffrage Movement Falls Short

Texas Joins the Battle

The Railroads and Urbanization
The Panic of 1893

A New Kind of Father, A New Kind of Daughter
The Women's Christian Temperance Union
Profile: Helen Stoddard

A Haunting Question
Profile: Mariana Folsom

Annette Finnigan
Profile: Annette Finnigan

The Suffrage Movement Comes of Age

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster
Prohibition

Women's Clubs
Profile: Eleanor Brackenridge

A Strong Comeback
Pauline Kleiber Wells
Profile: Pauline Kleiber Wells

The Anti-Suffrage Movement
Profile: Joe Bailey
Time to Regroup

Profile: Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Jim Ferguson vs. The University of Texas

The Battle Lost and Won

The Fall of Pa Ferguson
Profile: Jane Y. McCallum
The Great War

Primary Suffrage
Profile: Annie Webb Blanton

Taking it to the Voters
Profile: Jessie Daniel Ames

The Nineteenth Amendment

Aftermath

The League of Women Voters
The Petticoat Lobby

The All-Woman Supreme Court
Ma Ferguson
Profile: Margie Neal

The Anti-Suffragists Soldier On
Profile: Ida M. Darden
African-American Women and the Vote
Profile: Christia Adair

Tejano Women and the Vote
Looking Forward

 

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