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Author McArthur, Judith N

Title Minnie Fisher Cunningham : a suffragist's life in politics / Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / Liz Carpenter -- A Daughter of the New South -- The Rise of a Public Woman -- Suffrage First -- Washington Lobbyist and National Leader -- In League with Women Voters -- Woman Citizen and Democratic Partisan -- "Too Gallant a Walk"?: Running for the Senate, 1928 -- A Woman's New Deal -- At War with the Texas Regulars, 1944-1946 -- Left Feminism, 1947-1964
Summary Minnie Fisher Cunningham was Texas's most important female political activist. After directing Texas's woman suffrage campaign, she helped found the National League of Women Voters and the Woman's National Democratic Club. This is the biography of the lifelong politician affectionately known as Minnis Fish
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-258) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, 1882-1964.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, 1882-1964 fast
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 fast
Subject Women politicians -- United States -- Biography
Politicians -- United States -- Biography
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women politicians -- Texas -- Biography
Women -- Political activity -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Suffrage -- Texas -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Friendship
Politics and government
Politicians
Women -- Political activity
Women politicians
Women -- Suffrage
SUBJECT Texas -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134280
Texas -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134281
Subject Texas
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Harold L
ISBN 9780198028505
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