Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new south / / Melba Porter Hay ; foreword by Marjorie J. Spruill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811292503321
• Autore: Hay Melba Porter <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8131-3914-7; 0-8131-3523-0; 1-283-23343-6; 9786613233431; 0-8131-7326-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Collana: Topics in Kentucky history
• Disciplina: 324.6; 324.6/23092
• Soggetti: Women - United States; Women's rights - United States; Women - Suffrage; Women - United States - History
• 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: "One great honored name," 1872-1889 -- "A thunder-bolt out of a clear sky," 1890-1896 -- "An unholy interest in reforming others," 1897-1900 -- "Our hope lies in the children," 1901-1904 -- "Whatever a woman can do-- in the long run she will do," 1905-1907 -- "Educational advance and school suffrage for women go hand in hand," 1908-1911 -- "Among the most brilliant advocates of votes for women in this country," 1912-1913 -- "An able speaker, a brilliant woman," 1914-1915 -- "I cannot keep her from doing more than she ought to do," 1916-1918 -- Kentucky's "most distinguished woman citizen," 1919-1920 -- Epilogue: "She belonged to Kentucky."
• Sommario/riassunto: Kentucky native Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872--1920) was at the forefront of the suffrage movement at both the state and national levels. The great-granddaughter of Henry Clay and a descendant of several prominent Bluegrass families, Breckinridge inherited a sense of noblesse oblige that compelled her to speak for women's rights. ; However, it was her physical struggles and personal losses that transformed her from a privileged socialite into a selfless advocate for the disadvantaged. She devoted much of her life to the struggle for equal voting rights, but she also promoted the antitu