Ellen DuBois - Suffrage Virtual Event
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, Ellen DuBois’s “Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote” explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.
The Atlanta History Center welcomes the author for a virtual discussion of “Suffrage” with its Vice President of Guest Experiences, Jessica Vanlanduyt.
This event is free and open to the public. Join the discussion via the link below on Monday, August 24, 2020, at 7:00 PM (EST.)
A Cappella Books will have copies of “Suffrage” available after the event. Pre-order via the link below. At checkout, choose between the local delivery, curbside pick-up, or shipping options. For zip codes not listed in the above banner, select curbside pick-up or USPS shipping.
About the Book
Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a crushing disappointment. DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism. She introduces new champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought the fight into the 20th century, and she shows how African American women, led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, demanded voting rights even as white suffragists ignored them.
DuBois explains how suffragists built a determined coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators in forging a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states to set the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the Constitution. In vivid prose DuBois describes suffragists’ final victories in Congress and state legislatures, culminating in the last, most difficult ratification, in Tennessee.
DuBois follows women’s efforts to use their voting rights to win political office, increase their voting strength, and pass laws banning child labor, ensuring maternal health, and securing greater equality for women.
“Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote” is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of American democracy.
About the Author
Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, where she taught women's history. She is the coeditor of the anthology Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Women's History and coauthor of Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents, both of which have gone through multiple editions. In 1998 she won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association for her book Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.
