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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.

For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story waiting to be told. Why They Marched is a tribute to the many women who worked tirelessly in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship.

Ware tells her story through the lives of nineteen activists, most of whom have long been overlooked. We meet Mary Church Terrell, a multilingual African American woman; Rose Schneiderman, a labor activist building coalitions on New York's Lower East Side; Claiborne Catlin, who toured the Massachusetts countryside on horseback to drum up support for the cause; Mary Johnston, an aristocratic novelist bucking the Southern ruling elite; Emmeline B. Wells, a Mormon woman in a polygamous marriage determined to make her voice heard; and others who helped harness a groundswell of popular support. We also see the many places where the suffrage movement unfolded―in church parlors, meeting rooms, and the halls of Congress, but also on college campuses and even at the top of Mount Rainier. Few corners of the United States were untouched by suffrage activism.

Ware's deeply moving stories provide a fresh account of one of the most significant moments of political mobilization in American history. The dramatic, often joyous experiences of these women resonate powerfully today, as a new generation of young women demands to be heard.

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Author Bio

Susan Ware is an independent scholar who specializes in twentieth century U.S. history, women’s history, and biography. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1972 and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978, where she studied under Frank Friedel and Barbara Miller Solomon. While at Harvard, she began her lifelong association with the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe. 

In addition to consulting its resources for many of her research projects, she has served on the library’s advisory board and is currently a member of the Schlesinger Library Council. The library provided a home for the final volume of Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century (2004), which she edited. In 2014-2015 she served as interim faculty director of the library and is currently involved in planning for the library’s 75th anniversary as well as the upcoming suffrage centennial in 2020. Since 2012 she has served as general editor of the biographical dictionary American National Biography.

Ware has published widely in the field of 20th century American women’s history. Her books include Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal (1981); Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s (1982); and, most recently, American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction (2015). She has written biographies of New Deal politician Molly Dewson, aviator Amelia Earhart, radio pioneer Mary Margaret McBride, and tennis great Billie Jean King, as well as a collective biography, Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century (1998). 

She was a coauthor of the first five editions of the textbook America’s History (1987-2003) and also produced two documentary histories, Modern American Women, and Title IX: A Brief History with Documents. She was also the editor of Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits From Our Leading Historians (1998). Her current project focuses on the history of the woman suffrage movement.

Ware has taught at Harvard University, the University of New Hampshire, and Tufts University, but her primary institutional loyalty is to New York University, where she taught as a member of the history department from 1986-1995. Among her graduate students were Lola Van Wagenen and Melanie Gustafson. She has also taught several courses for the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies at MIT.

In addition to her research, teaching, and editing, Ware has been involved in a variety of professional organizations, including Clio Visualizing History since its founding in 1995. She is active with the Women’s Sports Foundation, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society of American Historians, the Roosevelt Institute, and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, where she serves on the board of advisors. 

She has been a historical consultant to numerous documentary films and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians since 2002. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts (right around the corner from the Schlesinger Library and the ART) and Hopkinton, New Hampshire. 

 

 

Source: Clio Visualizing History

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