Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Final Environmental Impact Statement
Author: H. Thibodeaux
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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The Weight of Their Votes
Author: Lorraine Gates Schuyler
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In The Weight of Their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive. Schuyler challenges popular scholarly opinion that women failed to wield their ballots effectively in the 1920s, arguing instead that in state and local politics, women made the most of their votes. Schuyler explores get-out-the-vote campaigns staged by black and white women in the region and the response of white politicians to the sudden expansion of the electorate. Despite the cultural expectations of southern womanhood and the obstacles of poll taxes, literacy tests, and other suffrage restrictions, southern women took advantage of their voting power, Schuyler shows. Black women mobilized to challenge disfranchisement and seize their right to vote. White women lobbied state legislators for policy changes and threatened their representatives with political defeat if they failed to heed women's policy demands. Thus, even as southern Democrats remained in power, the social welfare policies and public spending priorities of southern states changed in the 1920s as a consequence of woman suffrage.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In The Weight of Their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive. Schuyler challenges popular scholarly opinion that women failed to wield their ballots effectively in the 1920s, arguing instead that in state and local politics, women made the most of their votes. Schuyler explores get-out-the-vote campaigns staged by black and white women in the region and the response of white politicians to the sudden expansion of the electorate. Despite the cultural expectations of southern womanhood and the obstacles of poll taxes, literacy tests, and other suffrage restrictions, southern women took advantage of their voting power, Schuyler shows. Black women mobilized to challenge disfranchisement and seize their right to vote. White women lobbied state legislators for policy changes and threatened their representatives with political defeat if they failed to heed women's policy demands. Thus, even as southern Democrats remained in power, the social welfare policies and public spending priorities of southern states changed in the 1920s as a consequence of woman suffrage.
Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1854-1903)
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Statistical Reference Index
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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The Journal of the Assembly During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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