The He-Women Come

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Melanie Beals Goan
Keyword(s):  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
The State ◽  
Opinion Maker ◽  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Woman's Rights Movement

This chapter discusses the earliest instances of women voting in the U. S., including Kentucky's 1838 school suffrage provision. It also traces the origins of the national woman's rights movement. It details sporadic attempts by Kentuckians to raise the issue in places like Glendale and Dayton, Kentucky. It paints a picture of the dire consequences opponents believed would follow if woman's rights activists had their way. Henry Watterson's Courier-Journal, a key opinion maker in the state, actively opposed woman suffrage.

Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States

1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Jessica Kross Ehrlich ◽  
Eleanor Flexner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Woman's Rights Movement

Establishing New York State Anti-Suffrage Organizations, 1895–1911

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Goodier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
National Government ◽  
The State ◽  
York State ◽  
National Organization ◽  
Social Events ◽  
State Organization ◽  
College Educated

This chapter illustrates the nascent attempts of anti-suffragists to prevent their enfranchisement. The most prominent and effective anti-suffrage organizations that developed in New York State between 1895 and 1911 deliberately excluded men. Certainly, anti-suffragists were married to or related to some of the most politically powerful men in state and national government. However, a significant portion of college-educated, professional, and self-supporting women opposed suffrage. Once the antis established their organizations, they became a force powerful enough to help prolong the battle for woman suffrage in the state. The New York State organization provided speakers for lectures at clubs and social events in and outside the state, spreading their influence broadly. By the end of the period, New York antis had established a national organization.

Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement.

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Johnson ◽  
Paul E. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Woman's Rights Movement

When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America.

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 1403
Author(s):  
Christine Bolt ◽  
Sylvia D. Hoffert
Keyword(s):  
Antebellum America ◽  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Woman's Rights Movement

New York City's Penny Press and the Issue of Woman's Rights, 1848–1860

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia D. Hoffert
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
General Public ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
Woman's Rights ◽  
Woman's Rights Movement

Historians have generally held that before the Civil War the popular press did little to help the woman's rights movement. But careful analysis of the New York Daily Herald, the New York Daily Tribune, and the New York Daily Times during the antebellum period indicates the movement received wide attention in New York's penny press. These papers became a conduit through which woman's rights activists communicated with the general public and helped to rescue a movement without a newspaper of its own from relative obscurity.

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