02752cam a2200289 4500 599060328 TxAuBib 20180719120000.0 180321s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018006746 9780525429722 HRD 28.00 0525429727 HRD 28.00 LBSOR/DLC eng LBSOR rda DLC TxAuBib Weiss, Elaine F., 1952-, author. The woman's hour : the great fight to win the vote / Elaine Weiss. New York, New York : Viking, [2018] 404 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-404) and index. To Nashville -- Lay of the land -- The feminist peril -- The woman question -- Democracy at home -- The governor's quandary -- The blessing -- On account of sex -- Front porch -- Home and Heaven -- The woman's hour -- Cranking the machine -- Prison pin --Fieldwork -- A real and threatening danger -- War of the roses -- In justice to womanhood -- Terrorizing Tennessee manhood -- Petticoat government -- Armageddon -- The hour has come -- Liberty Bell -- Election Day. "Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led theirrespective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights"-- Provided by publisher. 20180719. United States Constitution 19th Amendment History. Women Suffrage Tennessee History 20th century. Women Suffrage United States History 20th century. Suffragists Tennessee History 20th century. Suffragists United States History 20th century.