Introduction -- Prologue: The Turning Point -- The Minor Family -- A Suffragist's Girlhood Reconstructed -- Boyhood Tragedy Enables Future Success -- Courtship, Marriage and Three Years in Holly Springs, Mississippi -- A New Life in St. Louis -- Francis Minor's Legal Career -- The Minors During the Civil War -- The Birth of Women's Suffrage Movement in Missouri -- Suffrage and the New Departure -- Minor v. Happersett -- A Woman Challenging the Nation's Highest Court -- The Lasting Impact of the Minor Case on Voting Rights -- Down But Not Out -- Never Stop Fighting -- Death Shall Not Silence Me -- Epilogue: Twenty-First Century Revival.
Summary:
"America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor is the first biography of these suffrage celebrities who were unique for their time in being jointly dedicated to the cause of female enfranchisement. This book follows their lives from slave-holding Virginians through their highly-lauded civilian work during the Civil War, and into the height of the early suffrage movement to show how two ordinary people of like mind, dedicated to a cause, can change the course of history"-- Provided by publisher.
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