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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; I: The Early Years, 1849-1866; II: The Making of a Suffragist, 1866-1888; III: Winning Rights for Kentucky Women, 1888-1895; IV: Southern Suffragists find a Champion, 1892-1896; V: State Leadership and Growing National Prominence, 1894-1904; VI: Carrying the Suffrage Banner Outside Kentucky, 1904-1910; VII: Struggle for Control of the National Suffrage Movement, 1909-1911; VIII: Putting in the Sickle, 1912-1916; IX: A Questionable Victory, 1916-1920; X: Other Causes Awaiting, 1920-1941; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C |
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De; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; y |
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Laura Clay was the daughter of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay and an important and controversial figure in the woman's rights movement. Paul E. Fuller traces this remarkable woman's career, from her early successes in Kentucky to her emergence as the most prominent southern suffragist. He devotes particular attention to the problems encountered by the suffragists in organizing the South, to the strategy of their alliance with the Woman's Christian Temperence Union, and the to peculiar dilemma of southern suffragists and race. Clay's many important contributions to the struggle for women's |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Clay, Laura, 1849-1941.
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Clay, Laura, 1849-1941. fast (OCoLC)fst00301971 |
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National American Woman Suffrage Association -- History
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National American Woman Suffrage Association. fast (OCoLC)fst00605419 |
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Suffragists -- United States -- Biography
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Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History
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Women's rights -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Suffragists.
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Women -- Suffrage.
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Women's rights.
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United States.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813148700 |
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0813148707 |
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