Doris Stevens

Jailed For Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780548308479
• ISBN-10: 0548308470
• Artikelnr.: 23277545

Autorenporträt

Doris Stevens was an American suffragist, author, and supporter for women's legal rights. She was the first female member of the American Institute of International Law and the inaugural chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women. Stevens, born in 1888 in Omaha, Nebraska, became interested in the suffrage movement while attending Oberlin College. After earning her sociology degree in 1911, she temporarily taught before working as a paid regional organizer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association's Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS). When the CUWS broke away from the parent organization in 1914, Stevens took over as national strategist. She was in charge of organizing the women's congress at the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915. When the CUWS was renamed the National Woman's Party (NWP) in 1916, Stevens organized party delegates in each of the 435 Congressional Districts in an effort to achieve national women's enfranchisement and defeat politicians who opposed women's rights.