A Simple Justice : Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote

The University Press of Kentucky

A Simple JusticeKentucky Women Fight for the Vote\nAuthor(s): Melanie Beals Goan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University Press of Kentucky, United States\nImprint: The University Press of Kentucky\nISBN-13: 9780813180175, 978-0813180175\nSynopsis\nWhen the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the change was not welcomed by people of both genders in politically and religiously conservative Kentucky. As a result, the suffrage movement in the Commonwealth involved a tangled web of stakeholders, entrenched interest groups, unyielding constitutional barriers, and activists with competing strategies.\n\nIn A Simple Justice, Melanie Beals Goan offers a new and deeper understanding of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky by following the.