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"Fifteen authors from ten countries describe efforts to secure women's right to vote and the related effects over the past century. Contributing authors brilliantly outline what has been accomplished and what tasks remain to close political gender gaps. They underscore the transformational leadership role women have played to achieve gains that all of us, women and men, enjoy today"--

Cover -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Call to Action -- 2 A Nation at War -- 3 One Woman Votes -- 4 Movement West -- 5 Some Rights Extended -- 6 African-American Suffragists -- 7 Fractured -- 8 New Century, Old Battle -- 9 New Tactics -- 10 Another War -- 11 Final Battle -- 12 Epilogue -- Timeline -- Chapter Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Call To Action -- Battle for Equality -- The Battle's Philosopher -- Battle Lines -- The Battle's First General -- Stanton and Anthony Meet -- Chapter 2: A NATION AT WAR -- Secession -- Women's Movement Begins -- Anthony and Stanton Speak Out -- Beginnings of Civil War -- War Years -- After the War -- Chapter 3: ONE WOMAN VOTES -- Paving the Way -- Registering and Voting -- The Arrest -- The Trial -- The Supreme Court Decision -- Chapter 4: MOVEMENT WEST -- Suffrage in Utah -- Catt in Colorado -- WCTU Joins the Colorado Campaign -- Why the West? -- Chapter 5: SOME RIGHTS EXTENDED -- Widening Horizons -- The Anti-suffragists -- Suffrage Groups Unite -- Chapter 6: AFRICAN AMERICAN SUFFRAGISTS -- Black Women Discarded -- Sojourner Truth -- Parallel Paths -- Mary Church Terrell -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Racism Within -- Chapter 7: FRACTURED -- Anthony and Stanton Disagree -- Harriot Stanton Blatch -- Five More States -- MAP - Votes for Women 1890-1919 -- Chapter 8: NEW CENTURY, OLD BATTLE -- New Leadership -- Liquor Forces -- Chapter 9: NEW TACTICS -- Militancy -- Parades to Persuade -- Paul and Shaw Split -- Chapter 10: ANOTHER WAR -- The Plan -- The Rift Grows -- Iron-Jawed Angels -- Night of Terror -- Silent Sentinels -- Chapter 11: FINAL BATTLE -- Congressional Journey -- New Congress -- Road to Ratification -- The Thirty-sixth State -- One Hundred Years -- Chapter 12: EPILOGUE -- TIMELINE -- CHAPTER NOTES -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- Back Cover

From vanishing American to voter : the enfranchisement of American Indians -- On account of race or color : the development of the Voting Rights Act -- A milestone on the reservation : the Voting Rights Act comes to Indian country -- It's our turn : Indian voting in San Juan County, Utah -- Going to court for a seat at the table : Fort Belknap versus Blaine County -- Lakotas in the legislature : the Bone shirt case -- An equal opportunity : the impact of the Voting Rights Act -- From extermination to electorate : Indians in American politics.

Awakening -- The Quaker -- The World Anti-Slavery Convention -- Home -- The Seneca Falls Convention -- Lucy Stone -- Worcester -- Sojourner Truth -- Susan B. Anthony -- The woman question -- Civil War -- "The negro's hour" -- The new departure -- Wyoming and Utah -- Scandal -- Setbacks in the West -- The new woman -- Colorado -- Transitions -- Sisterhood -- Success in the Pacific West -- Alice Paul -- The winning plan -- War -- Ratification -- Epilogue.