... of enfranchisement. The chapter observes that activist white women recognized that the Nineteenth Amendment marked an important turning point in southern politics that changed not only who cast ballots but also who counted as a constituent. It notes that with their votes, women commanded the attention of political...

... lasted more than seventy years, reexamines the meaning of the Nineteenth Amendment, and explores the connections between electoral mobilization and political power. It looks at female agency and activism through one of the most prized tools of American democracy: the vote. Legislative reform Lobbying...

... to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment for women to achieve the vote, but North Carolina's political climate was conservative. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, appointed Weil as state field commander. The legislature repeatedly voted down granting women...

...At the very height of the struggle over the Nineteenth Amendment, leading Indigenous feminists were completing and publishing their major works of political theory. This was not a coincidence. Native women had long been engaged in the fight for political participation, citizenship rights...

... lasted more than seventy years, reexamines the meaning of the Nineteenth Amendment, explores the connections between electoral mobilization and political power. It looks at female agency and activism through one of the most prized tools of American democracy: the vote. Black suffrage black women's role...

... further that the Nineteenth Amendment blurred the lines of gender and race that were so central to the order of Jim Crow South, as white and black women embraced their new status as voters. Antisuffragists arguments of Election day rituals Polling places cleaning up of Rituals political election day...

...This chapter discusses how Democratic Party leaders throughout the South look upon the demands of organized white women in the years following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. It observes that nervous Democrats, when faced with a large and unpredictable bloc of new voters at the polls...

...This chapter examines black women’s national politics in the 1920s. For years, African American women had been organizing in their churches, mutual benefit associations, the Phyllis Wheatley Young Women’s Christian Association, and clubs. The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and pending...

...After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. The author of this book examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures...

... in the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution of 1920, which guaranteed most white women the right to vote. Progress-focused narratives of women’s history, however, focus on what women gained, and overlook what women lost. As Proving Pregnancy has argued, as both African American and white...

...This chapter discusses how southern politicians treated white women's participation in formal politics. It observes that ten years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, southern politicians had grown accustomed to white women's political status. The chapter observes further...

...Part 4 begins when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920. People celebrated women winning the vote, but the reality was more complicated. The amendment did not guarantee all women the right to vote—it simply stated that sex could no longer be used as a reason for denying them...