Woman suffrage and politicsby Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler

Woman suffrage and politics

Contents

• Why the Book is Written
• How the Woman Suffrage Movement Began
• The Averted Triumph
• That Adjective Male 1866
• The Negro's Hour
• Negro Suffrage as a Political Necessity
• The First Victory (1869)
• Politics After the War
• Two Amendments and Many Women
• The Woman's Hour that Never Came
• The Invisible Enemy
• Special Handicaps and Hazards
• A New Impulse
• Illinois: A Turning Point
• The Story of Ohio
• The Story of Iowa
• Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment
• The Crises of 1916
• The Fighting Forces
• The Decisive Battle
• More Victories and More Defeats
• The Congress of the United States Surrenders
• Campaigning for Ratification
• Hard Work for Special Sessions
• The Legal Tests Begin
• Adding Up the Ratification Column
• Last of All Suffrage Conventions
• The Opposition Grows Grimmer
• The Struggle for the Thirty-Sixth State
• The Supreme Court Speaks
• Tennessee
• The States That Did Not Ratify
• Conclusion
• Chronological Record of the Winning of Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment
• Index