Suffrage

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn

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“…Southern states found ways to disenfranchise black women within a decade of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, less than half the time it had taken them to disenfranchise black men after the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. 96 The voting rights of Native American women were not secured under the Nineteenth Amendment since the citizenship of Indians remained unresolved for another generation, and the citizenship of immigrant women (and thus their voting rights) is very much still an unresolved question. 97 It is my hope that as the field generates even more community studies, state-based accounts, and regional histories that are sensitive to the distinctive political dynamics of the local, we will reach better understandings of the various and different trajectories that various groups of women took toward securing the franchise, seeing even more clearly how ratification of suffrage was an important-but certainly not a final stepin securing women's right to equal citizenship.…”

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Reflections on Aileen Kraditor's Legacy: Fifty Years of Woman Suffrage Historiography, 1965–2014

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2015

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This article assesses the impact that Aileen Kraditor's classic monograph, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement (1965) has had on fifty years of suffrage historiography. Kraditor is best known among scholars for offering the terms “justice” and “expediency” to distinguish between two strains of suffragist argumentation, the former of which she associated with the nineteenth century and the latter with the Progressive Era. Although specialists no longer believe in a firm divide between the two periods, many continue to differentiate between principled (egalitarian) arguments that called for suffrage as a universal right of citizenship and instrumental (expedient) claims that often contained racist assumptions about white women's superiority. The majority of scholars now accept Kraditor's fundamental insight that a political movement devoted to the extension of democracy contained within it antidemocratic and racist elements, but they have challenged other key aspects of Kraditor's work, including her characterization of white southern women's advocacy of suffrage and her Turnerian assumptions about why statewide suffrage referenda succeeded first (and primarily) in the West. In addition, scholars have expanded the terrain of women's political activism to include analyses of black women's suffrage activities and understandings of citizenship; in so doing they have connected the regional histories of the South and the Midwest, displacing Kraditor's national narrative. Collectively the field has moved far beyond Kraditor's focus on the National American Woman Suffrage Association to emphasize the enormous range of suffrage activities that took place before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, demonstrating how woman suffrage encompassed new understandings of citizenship that were inseparable from the histories of Reconstruction, U.S. expansion, and western imperialism.

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Reflections on Aileen Kraditor's Legacy: Fifty Years of Woman Suffrage Historiography, 1965–2014

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Reflections on Aileen Kraditor's Legacy: Fifty Years of Woman Suffrage Historiography, 1965–2014

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