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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459628003321

Autore

Fuller Paul E.

Titolo

Laura Clay and the woman's rights movement / / Paul E. Fuller ; with a foreword by A. Elizabeth Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1992

©1975

ISBN

0-8131-8420-7

0-8131-4870-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

324.6/23/0973

Soggetti

Suffragists - United States

Women - Suffrage - United States - History

Women's rights - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; I: The Early Years, 1849-1866; II: The Making of a Suffragist, 1866-1888; III: Winning Rights for Kentucky Women, 1888-1895; IV: Southern Suffragists find a Champion, 1892-1896; V: State Leadership and Growing National Prominence, 1894-1904; VI: Carrying the Suffrage Banner Outside Kentucky, 1904-1910; VII: Struggle for Control of the National Suffrage Movement, 1909-1911; VIII: Putting in the Sickle, 1912-1916; IX: A Questionable Victory, 1916-1920; X: Other Causes Awaiting, 1920-1941; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C

DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Laura Clay was the daughter of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay and an important and controversial figure in the woman's rights movement. Paul E. Fuller traces this remarkable woman's career, from her early successes in Kentucky to her emergence as the most prominent southern suffragist. He devotes particular attention to the problems encountered by the suffragists in organizing the South, to the strategy of their alliance with the Woman's Christian Temperence Union, and the to peculiar dilemma of southern suffragists and race. Clay's many



important contributions to the struggle for women's