Fighting Chance

The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America

• Author(s): Faye E. Dudden,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 298
• ISBN_10: 0199376433
  ISBN_13: 9780199376438
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) , History / United States / 20th Century , History / Modern / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , History / Social History , History / African American & Black , History / Women , Political Science / Civil Rights , Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal, deception, and personal conflict, Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the only cause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money and political maneuver.