Mr. President, how long must we wait? : Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote Cover Image

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Mr. President, how long must we wait? : Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the fight for the right to vote / Tina Cassidy.

Summary:

Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC in March 1913, a day before he took the presidential oath of office. There's only a modest turnout-- the crowds and reporters are blocks away, watching a parade of eight thousand suffragists on Pennsylvania Avenue in a first-of-its-kind protest organized by an activist named Alice Paul and led by a woman riding a white horse. Cassidy weaves together the trajectories of Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson, two apparent opposites. From solitary confinement, hunger strikes, and mental institutions to ever more determined activism, the journey to the vote was spearheaded in no small part by Alice Paul's leadership. -- adapted from jacketn.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501177767
ISBN: 1501177761
Physical Description: xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A Quaker from New Jersey -- Password: kitchen -- A southern boy -- From Princeton to public office -- The suffrage procession -- Where are all the people? -- In the Oval Office -- The siege of the Senate -- A house divided -- Dark days -- Submarine warfare -- The advancing army -- The silent sentinels -- Fighting for democracy -- The Russians -- The Bastille Day protest -- Behind bars -- The hunger strikes -- The watch fires of freedom -- The amendment -- The vote.