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Votes for Delaware Women
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Anne M. Boylan
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
Votes for Delaware Women is the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarship of the national story. It looks especially at why, despite decades of suffrage organizing and an epic struggle in Dover, in the spring of 1920, the legislature refused to make Delaware the final state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. The book traces how, starting in the 1890s, white and African American women organized and advocated for "votes for women," first by revising the state constitution and then through a federal amendment. Within the state's two major suffrage organizations, the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), an affiliate of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the Delaware branch of the National Woman's Party (NWP), divisions over strategy and tactics widened into fissures, especially during the Great War, making it difficult to unite in a common endeavor. Delaware was unusual as a border state that was segregated but did not disfranchise African Americans. In the end, the book argues, a combination of racial and class issues doomed the ratification effort.
Author / Editor information
ANNE M. BOYLAN is a professor emerita of history and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware in Newark. She is the author of Sunday School: The Formation of An American Institution, 1790-1880; The Origins of Women’s Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840; and Women’s Rights in the United States: A History in Documents.
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eBook published on:
February 12, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781644532089
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eBook ISBN:
9781644532089
Keywords for this book
American studies; American history; Delaware history; women's studies; women's history; women's suffrage; feminism; African American women; women in politics; citizenship; voting rights; Nineteenth Amendment; votes for women; Delaware Equal Suffrage Association; National American Women Suffrage Association; National Woman's Party; race and class; gender and race; gender and class
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
