Bibliography

The books listed here provide more context and information on the struggle for woman suffrage. Some are primary sources; others are studies of various aspects of the suffrage movement. Topics include the woman suffrage movement in Illinois and the role of Black women in advocating for the vote. All books are available through Oesterle Library, either in the main collection or as an e-book.

DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

 Dudden, Faye E.  Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (ebook)

Free, Laura E. Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. (ebook)

Green, Elna C. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Hendricks, Wanda A. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Levander, Caroline Field. Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Johnson, Joan Marie. Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. (ebook)

Marshall, Susan E. Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

Materson, Lisa G. For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

McCammon, Holly J., and Lee Ann Banaszak, editors. 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (ebook)

Performance Media. Illinois Women: 75 Years of the Right to Vote. Chicago: Chicago Sun-Times Features, 1996.

Reckitt, Helena, editor. The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.

Sneider, Allison L. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, and Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches, 1815-1902. Ellen Carol DuBois, editor. New York: Schocken Books, 1981.

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Tetrault, Lisa. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. (ebook)

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill. One Woman One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995.