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Intro -- Contents -- Editors ' Introduction -- 1. Gentry Women and the Transformation of Daily Life in Jeffersonian and Antebellum Virginia -- 2. Jane C. Washington, Family, and Nation at Mount Vernon, 1830-1855 -- 3. "I Desire to Give My Black Family Their Freedom" -- 4. Seeking a Moral Economy of War -- 5. Redirecting the Tide of White Imperialism -- 6. Unlikely Allies -- 7. Solving the Girl Problem -- 8. To See Past the Differences to the Fundamentals -- 9. Louise Thompson Patterson and the Southern Roots of the Popular Front -- 10. Women's and Girls' Activism in 1960s Southwest Georgia -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Social reform and suffrage in the progressive era, 1900–1920 -- Part Two. Post-suffrage politics, depression, and war, 1920–1945 -- Part Three. Conformity, civil rights, and social protest, 1945–1965 -- Part Four. Feminism, backlash, and political culture, 1965–2000 -- Notes -- Index

"Expanded from papers presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, this collection demonstrates how women of different races and classes transformed the South during its most crucial turning points, including post-Revolution, Civil War, Jim Crow era, World War I, and the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher

Essays -- Introduction: a lifelong interest / A. Elizabeth Taylor -- The woman suffrage movement in Texas / A. Elizabeth Taylor -- A note on the author -- Documents -- Seneca Falls "Declaration of sentiments" -- The Texas Reconstruction Convention considers woman suffrage (1868-1869): Declaration of T. H. Mundine; Committee report for woman suffrage; Committee minority report against woman suffrage; Remarks of Hon. L. D. Evans on the resolution of Mr. Mundine -- The American Woman Suffrage Association petitions the Texas legislature (1872): Memorial from Lucy Stone -- The Texas Redeemer Convention considers woman suffrage (1875): Mr. Weaver's resolution; Mr. Russell's resolution; Debate; Mrs. Hiatt's report -- "Idiots, lunatics, paupers, and felons" (1875): Article 6, 1875 Constitution -- "The ballot an educator" (1881): by Jenny Beauchamp -- Mariana Folsom organizes for suffrage in Texas (1880s): Lucy Stone to Mariana Folsom; "The ballot" by Mariana Folsom -- The WCTU endorses votes for women (1888): "Woman is thinking!" by Grace Danforth -- "If I were mayor of San Antonio (1893): "The female suffragists, a chat with four Texas leaders of the movement -- The Texas Equal Rights Association (1893): Minutes of the first session -- Local suffrage societies make the news (1893-1894): Belton; Denison; Granger; Dallas -- Texas suffragists propose an organizational plan (1894): Texas plan of work -- Southern ladies and gentlemen (1894): "The women suffragists... waving the bloody shirt" -- Texas Woman's Congress meets in Dallas (1893-1894): "Want power at once" by Margaret Watson -- "Equal suffrage means purer laws" (1894): "Women should vote" by Miss Sue Greenleaf -- Representative Tomkins proposes a state constitutional amendment (1895): House Joint Resolution no. 29 -- Annette Finnigan begins the second phase of the Texas struggle (1903-1905): "Copy of letter to Texas woman" by Finnigan -- Suffragists testify at a legislative hearing (1907): The Woman's Tribune -- The Austin Woman Suffrage Association (1908-1915): Minutes -- Eleanor Brackenridge revives the Texas Woman Suffrage Association (1913): Eleanor Brackenridge to Mrs. Cone Johnson -- Annette Finnigan polls the legislative candidates (1914): Letters to and from candidates for the legislature -- Minnie Fisher Cunningham takes charge (1925): "Program of the Fifth Convention of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association" -- Houston Chronicle and Herald endorses suffrage (1917) -- Men support the cause (1914-1919): "Some phases of woman suffrage" by S. P. Brooks; "Why men need equal suffrage for women" by A. Caswell Ellis -- Texas suffragists send a message to President Wilson (1917): Call to the Seventh Convention of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association; "Equal suffrage meet closes" -- Minnie Fisher Cunningham reports on state suffrage activities and war work (1917) -- Lobbying for the vote (1917): Directions for lobbyists -- Suffragists help impeach Governor Ferguson (1917): Minnie Fisher Cunningham to Carrie Chapman Catt -- The Primary Election Bill passes (1918): Minnie Fisher Cunningham to Carrie Chapman Catt -- Suffragists sign up (1918): "Un manifiesto de la Sra. Rena Maverick Green a las mujeres del condado" -- Women register and vote for first time in Texas (1918): "Texas woman voters," The woman citizen; "To the women of Texas," by Hortense Ward; Vote for Annie Webb Blanton -- Efforts to pass the federal amendment continue (1918): Minnie Fisher Cunningham to Jewel Scarborough -- Anti-suffragists rally opposition (1916-1918): "Not for woman's suffrage"; "Women don't want suffrage" -- Texans vote on a state constitutional amendment (1919): "Outline of campaign for carrying the suffrage amendment; "Many factors contributed to the apparent defeat of suffrage"; Election results -- Texas legislature ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment (1919): Minnie Fisher Cunningham to Carrie Chapman Catt -- Texas Suffrage Ratification Proclamation (1920) -- Jane Y. McCallum's account of the movement: Diary; Activities of women in Texas politics, I -- Epilogue: "Citizens at last": Activities of women in Texas politics, II -- Bibliographies -- Suffrage bibliography / by Ruthe Winegarten -- Texas women in politics and public affairs / by Judith N. McArthur .

Intro -- Contents -- Contents (cont.) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: James Edward "Farmer Jim" Ferguson's Impeachment and Its Ramifications -- 1. The Great Texas "Bear Fight": Progressivism and the Impeachment ofJames E. Ferguson -- 2. "Think of the Lives That Might Be Saved": James Ferguson, Women's War Work, and the University of Texas -- 3. "Without Us, It Is Ferguson with a Plurality": Woman Suffrage and Anti-Ferguson Politics -- 4. In the Public Eye: Texas Governor James Ferguson's Fight with the Press -- 5. Fergusonism, Factionalization, and Thirty Yearsof Texas Politics -- 6. The Texas Governor's Impeachment in Historical Memory -- Document 1: Ferguson's Texas Farm Tenant Law -- Document 2: Minnie Fisher Cunningham to Carrie Chapman Catt Letter -- Document 3: Pat M. Neff to William Pettus Hobby Letter -- Ferguson's Impeachment: A Selected Bibliography -- Index.