The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty YearsHarper, Ida Husted
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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
Harper, Ida Husted
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Miss Anthony insists that political State conventions must put
Woman Suffrage planks in their platforms; politicians try to
persuade Kansas women not to ask for them; dilemma of State
president, Mrs. Johns; letters of Mrs. Chapman Catt, Henry B.
Blackwell, Rev. Anna Shaw, showing uselessness of campaign without
Political endorsement; Miss Anthony's rousing letters to Woman's
State Committee, Republican leaders and Mrs. Johns; great speech at
Kansas City; action taken by Republican Woman's Convention;
Suffrage plank refused by Republican State Convention; fight for it
in Populist Convention; wild scene when secured; "not a test of
party fealty;" Prohibitionists adopt plank; Miss Anthony and Miss
Shaw censured by Republicans; Miss Anthony states their reasons and
takes a cheerful view; friendly words from Wm. Lloyd Garrison; her
brave declaration; scores Kansas Republicans in letter to Mr.
Blackwell; cordial support of Annie L. Diggs; Mrs. Johns and Mr.
Breidenthal hopeful; Amendment Defeated; possession of Limited
Suffrage a hindrance to securing Full Suffrage.
CHAPTER XLIV.
THE SOUTHERN TRIP--THE ATLANTA CONVENTION. (1895.) 799-817
Not cast down by Kansas defeat, Miss Anthony speaks at Nebraska
Convention; goes to New York State Convention at Ithaca; visits
Cornell University and speaks to girls of Sage College; addresses
National W. C. T. U. on Sunday at Cleveland, showing weakness of
all attempts at Reform unsupported by the Ballot; pleasant month in
New York City; letter on Y. M. C. A. for "woman's edition;"
invitation from Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Rev. H. W. Thomas to
take part in Liberal Religious Congress; addresses at Lexington,
Louisville, Memphis and New Orleans; complimentary reports of
Picayune, Shreveport Times, Birmingham News, Huntsville Tribune;
National-American Convention in Atlanta; courtesy of press, pulpit
and people; Seventy-fifth Birthday celebration and presentation of
Annuity of $800; second triennial of Woman's Council; speaks at
Douglass' funeral; stirs up the audience in Rochester at Ida B.
Wells' lecture on Lynching; resigns position on State Industrial
School Board.
CHAPTER XLV.
THE SECOND VISIT TO CALIFORNIA. (1895.) 819-838
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