Recasting the vote : how women of color transformed the suffrage movement / Cathleen D. Cahill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Prelude and Parades, 1890-1913. -- Woman versus the Indian / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin ; Our sisters in China are free / Mabel Ping-Hua Lee ; Tierra e idioma / Nina Otero-Warren ; Race rhymes / Carrie Williams Clifford ; The Indian princess who wasn't there / the strange case of Dawn Mist ; An Ojibwe woman in Washington, D.C. / Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin ; Come, all ye women, come! -- Part II. At the crossroads of suffrage and citizenship, 1913-1917. The problem of the color line / Carrie Williams Clifford ; The Indians of today / Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin ; To speak for the Spanish American women / Nina Otero-Warren ; The application of democracy to women / Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -- Part III. The war comes, 1917-1920. Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy? / Carrie Williams Clifford ; Pacific currents ; Americanize the first American / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin ; Courting political ruin / Nina Otero-Warren -- Part IV. Our women take part, 1920-1928. Everyone who had labored in the cause ; The value of the ballot ; A terrible blot on civilization / Carrie Williams Clifford ; Candidata republicana / Nina Otero-Warren ; To help Indians help themselves / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin -- Epilogue : remembering and forgetting.

We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York's Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equality for Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, a diverse cadre of extraordinary women struggled to build a movement that would truly include all women, regardless of race or national origin. In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina "Nina" Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. As we celebrate the centennial of a great triumph for the women's movement, Cahill's powerful history reminds us of the work that remains.

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