Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote: The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920

by Bernadette Cahill

Overview

Women from all over Arkansas—left out of the civil rights granted by the post–Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state’s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage work in Arkansas, but also for the state’s contribution to the nationwide nonviolent campaign for women’s suffrage that reached its climax between 1913 and 1920. Based on original research, Cahill’s book relates the history of some of those who contributed to this victorious struggle, reveals long-forgotten photographs, includes a map of the locations of meetings and rallies, and provides a list of Arkansas suffragists who helped ensure that discrimination could no longer exclude women from participation in the political life of the state and nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935106838
Publisher:	Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	146
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

BERNADETTE CAHILL is an independent scholar who has authored several books on travel and history, including extensive writing about women’s suffrage. Born in Scotland, Cahill holds an MA Honors in medieval and modern history from the University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

Cover Blank Page Contents Introduction: A Lost Opportunity Chapter 1: City Hall—DId She or Didn't She? 500 West Markham Street Chapter 2: Liberty Hall—Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Speaks, Spring and Second Streets (southwest corner) Chapter 3: Suffragists Meet—but Where? West Markham Street (1889) Chapter 4: Equal Suffrage State Central Committee Offices 1917, 221 West Second Street Chapter 5: The Old State House, 300 West Markham Street Chapter 6: Capital Theater—Susan B. Anthony Speaks, 200 Block, West Markham Street (south side) Chapter 7: Marion Hotel, 200 Block, West Markham Street (north side) Chapter 8: The Suffragists "At Home" at the Capital Hotel, 113–123 West Markham Street Chapter 9: The Woman's Chronicle, 122 West Second Street Chapter 10: Old City Hall, 120–122 West Markham Street Chapter 11: Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 106 East Markham Street Chapter 12: Votes for Women at the Board of Trade, Second and Scott Streets Chapter 13: Kempner Theatre—Carrie Chapman Catt Speaks in 1916, 500 Block, South Louisiana Street (1916) Chapter 14: Carnegie Library, Seventh and South Louisiana Streets (1911–1963) Chapter 15: The National Woman's Party at Royal Arcanum Hall, 105 West Eighth Street Chapter 16: Mary W. Loughborough and the Arkansas Ladies' Journal, 723 South Main Street Chapter 17: YMCA—Carrie Chapman Catt in 1900, 717–719 South Main Street (1900) Chapter 18: Suffrage Organization 1.0—An 1888 Arkansas Mystery, Turner Studio, 814 Main Street Chapter 19: The Radical Suffragists and Adolphine Fletcher Terry's Home, 411 East Seventh Street Chapter 20: Where Women Marched—Parades, Meetings, and Other Activities Chapter 21: The McDiarmid House, 1424 Center Street Chapter 22: Suffrage Organization 2.0—Lulu Markwell's Home, 1911, 1422 Rock Street Chapter 23: The New State Capitol Chapter 24: Memorials to the Suffragists Endnotes Appendix I Appendix II Acknowledgements and Call to Action Bibliography Index About the Author Back Cover