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The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States presents important moments and participants in the history of the American suffrage movement, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States presents important moments and participants in the history of the American suffrage movement, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst, Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street "Merchant Prince" William Earle Dodge, and Ava Belmont, who mar...

Examines an under studied dimension women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. As the struggle for full economic and political power and self-determination for women continues today, this history reveals how generous women helped shape the movement.

Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform. Often doing similar work for different reasons, both groups emphasized history, memory, and education. Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segr...

When sisters Mary and Louisa Poppenheim, daughters of a prominent South Carolina mercantile family, left their home in the 1880s to attend Vassar College in New York, they entered a world that challenged their beliefs about women and society. This text collects their letters home.

Part of the three volumes on South Carolina women, this title spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era. It features the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women. It contains essays on plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from the upcountry and slave women.

From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges. This title looks at how such educations, influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in social reforms of the Progressive Era South.