Table of Contents
Section 1 A Long Silence 1
Cracking the Ceiling 3
Seventy Years of Struggle 7
At the Ballot Box 11
Disenfranchised: "We Are Determined to Foment a Rebelion." 18
"All Men Are Created Equal" 22
Consent of the Governed 24
"Inhabitants" and "Persons" 28
Legal Status of Women 31
Reinventing the Nation 33
The Founding Mothers 36
Inventing Chattel Slavery 39
Breaking the Silence 41
A Suitable Education 44
Abolitionists Take the Lead 48
Lucy Stone: A Woman of Courage 57
The London Encounter 65
Lucretia Mott: Uncompromising Reformer 67
The Radical Quakers 72
Section 2 The Awakening: A Declaration of Sentiments 79
The First Convention 81
An Invitation to Tea 84
"And Women Are Created Equal" 88
Declaration of Sentiments 89
The Resolutions 94
Douglass Speaks 97
Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls 102
The Rochester Convention 104
A Call to Action 108
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Mother of the Movement 111
Section 3 The Early Conventions 123
"Let Us Convene" 125
Worcester, Massachusetts, 1850 128
Worcester, Massachusetts, 1851 134
Syracuse, New York, 1852 136
Ohio Conventions, 1851-1853 139
Sojourner Truth: Powerful Orator 141
Massillon, Ohio, 1852 145
The Bloomer: "Dress Reform" 146
New York City, 1853 154
"A Surfeit of Conventions," 1854-1861 157
The Temperance Movement 161
Section 4 A Division 165
The Abolitionist Lecture Tour 167
The Party of Lincoln 170
The Loyal Women 174
Whose Hour? 180
Universal Suffrage Demand 183
"The Last Straw" 186
The Split 192
The Revolution 194
A Difference in Strategies 197
Breakthrough in Wyoming 199
The Long Wait 201
Susan B. Anthony: The Drum Major for Suffrage 202
Section 5 Are Women Persons? 217
A New Direction 219
The Woodhull Scandal 223
The New Departure 226
The Susan B. Anthony Amendment 232
The Mother Vote 235
The Opposition Forces 236
Reunification: Together Again 241
"Lifting as We Climb" 244
Ida B. Wells-Barnett 249
The Southern Strategy 252
Farewell to Douglass 256
Changing of the Guard 259
Carrie Chapman Catt 262
The Doldrums 264
Section 6 How Long Must Women Wait? 269
A New Era 271
"Stirring Up the World" 274
A Bolder Course 277
"Outdoor Warfare" 279
Welcoming Wilson 284
Another Split 288
Alice Paul 292
"The Winning Plan" 295
"War Work" 299
The Congresswoman Votes "No" 301
Jail and Hunger Strikes 303
"Night of Terror" 305
New York: Victory in 1917 307
A Vote in Congress 310
More Delays, More Arrests 313
Battle far Tennessee 316
The League of Women Voters 318
"The Last Step" 323
Equal Rights Amendment 323
Pantsuit Nation 326
Acknowledgments 331
Appendices Firsts: A Woman's Place 333
Appendix 1 Congressional Women's Caucus 335
Appendix 2 Women in Congress 337
Appendix 3 Women as Governors 349
Appendix 4 Women Representatives and Senators by State and Territory, 1917-Present 353
Appendix 5 Woman Suffrage Time Line, 1756-2016 369
Map: Votes for Women 379
Notes 381
Bibliography 395
Index 407
