Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers

Title: Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers
Author: Barbara F Berenson
ISBN: 9781467118620
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
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Publisher Description:

Massachusetts was at the center of the national struggle for women's rights, and the early activities there, described in this well-researched book, enabled the next generation of women to triumph over tradition.

Massachusetts was at the center of the national struggle for women's rights. Long before the Civil War, Lucy Stone and other Massachusetts abolitionists opposed women's exclusion from political life. They launched the organized movement at the first National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Worcester. After the war, state activists founded the Boston-based American Woman Suffrage Association and Woman's Journal to lead campaigns across the country. Their activities laid the foundation for the next generation of suffragists to triumph over tradition. Author Barbara Berenson gives these revolutionary reformers the attention they deserve in this compelling and engaging story.