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Forward into Light: The Struggle for Woman's Suffrage (Perspectives on History)
Forward into Light The Struggle for Woman's Suffrage - Perspectives on History Author:Madeleine Meyers (Editor) This collection of journals, newsclips, historic photos, poems, songs, essays and political cartoons highlights the woman's suffrage movement in the United States. From the early days of Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, to Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, the women who led the movement are... more » profiled through their writing, speeches and actions.
Contemporary historian Madeleine Meyers introduces the movement in her Foreword, and ties the excerpted articles together with brief comments throughout the text. The many fascinating excerpts from The New York Times and The Suffagist capture the emotions of the women from all walks of life who made history in America in their struggle for woman's suffrage.« less