Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement PDF full book. Access full book title Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement by Antonia Petrash. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.

Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement

Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement PDF Author: Antonia Petrash
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614239649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
An account of how the women’s rights movement found fertile ground on Long Island and succeeded thanks to the suffragettes’ classic grassroots campaign. For seventy-two years, American women fought for the right to vote, and many remarkable ladies on Long Island worked tirelessly during this important civil rights movement. The colorful—and exceedingly wealthy—Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was undoubtedly the island’s most outspoken and controversial advocate for woman suffrage. Ida Bunce Sammis, vigorous in her efforts, became one of the first women elected to the New York legislature. Well-known Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, worked with countless other famous and ordinary Long Islanders to make her mother’s quest a reality. Author Antonia Petrash tells the story of these and other women’s struggle to secure the right to vote for themselves, their daughters and future generations of Long Island women.