Leslie Parker Hume. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. (Modern British History Series.) New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1982. Pp. 253. $50.00.

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-259
Author(s):  
Ann Robson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
British History ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
National Union ◽  
Garland Publishing ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

A Fundamental Component

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Goodier ◽  
Karen Pastorello
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Black Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
New York State ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
York State ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

This chapter looks at the story of black women in the New York State woman suffrage movement, which is marked by strained racial relations and exclusionary practices. Black women, like white women, saw the vote as a panacea, able to solve their specific problems relating to racial violence, education, employment, and workers' rights. Although white women seldom invited black women to join in their suffrage activities, black women found ways to advance the cause and participate in the movement. Indeed, pervasive racism complicated black women's suffrage activism, but it cannot diminish their contributions to mainstream suffragism. Rarely separating women's political rights from other fundamental rights, black women's suffrage activism showed creativity and ingenuity and did not always mirror white women's activist strategies. Ultimately, black women's influence on black male voters helped secure women's political enfranchisement in New York State.

The Actresses' Franchise League and the Campaign for Women's Suffrage 1908–1914

1985 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Hirshfield
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
First World War ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Union ◽  
National Union ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

In the great suffrage campaign waged in the decade preceding the First World War, women established a multitude of organizations in order to exert collective pressure upon a reluctant House of Commons. Some, such as the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst, favored confrontational tactics and resorted to occasional violence against property, as a means of attracting notice to the cause. Others, most notably the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) over which Mrs Millicent Fawcett presided, defined themselves as ‘constitutional’ and utilized the classic methods of persuasion and lobbying, in preference to the more dramatic tactics of their ‘militant’ sisters. Between the extremes of the WSPU and the NUWSS were numerous organizations composed of women activists of varying backgrounds, occupations, and views, sharing nonetheless a common dedication to the principle of female enfranchisement and caught up in the excitement and pageantry of a campaign which at times appeared almost religious in tone and character.

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