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Pioneering the Vote
- Author
- Neylan McBaine
- Narrator
- Kate Mulligan
- Publish Date
- 17 November 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In 1895, Utah’s leading suffragist, Emmeline B. Wells, welcomed her friends Susan B. Anthony and Reverend Anna Howard Shaw to a gathering of more than 8,000 people from around the nation at the Rocky Mountain Suffrage Convention. They were there to celebrate the suffrage movement’s recent wins and strategize their next triumphs. Pioneering the Vote tells the remarkable, largely unknown story of the early suffrage victories that happened in states and territories in the American West. With the encouragement of the Eastern leaders, women from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho came together in a unique moment of friendship and unified purpose to secure the vote for women in America.
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“Most women’s suffrage and feminist historians have almost entirely ignored the West.”
Sandra L. Myres, author of Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800–1915
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Details
- Author
- Neylan McBaine
- Narrator
- Kate Mulligan
- Duration
- 9 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781799904960
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- History of the Americas
Synopsis
In 1895, Utah’s leading suffragist, Emmeline B. Wells, welcomed her friends Susan B. Anthony and Reverend Anna Howard Shaw to a gathering of more than 8,000 people from around the nation at the Rocky Mountain Suffrage Convention. They were there to celebrate the suffrage movement’s recent wins and strategize their next triumphs. Pioneering the Vote tells the remarkable, largely unknown story of the early suffrage victories that happened in states and territories in the American West. With the encouragement of the Eastern leaders, women from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho came together in a unique moment of friendship and unified purpose to secure the vote for women in America.
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