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Minnie Fisher Cunningham : a suffragist's life in politics / Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith.

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Minnie Fisher Cunningham was Texas's most important female political activist. After directing Texas's woman suffrage campaign, she helped found the National League of Women Voters and the Woman's National Democratic Club. This is the biography of the lifelong politician affectionatel...

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Main Author: McArthur, Judith N.
Other Authors: Smith, Harold L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ℗♭2003.
Subjects:
Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, > 1882-1964.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, > 1884-1962 > Friends and associates.
Women politicians > United States > Biography.
Politicians > United States > Biography.
Women > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Women politicians > Texas > Biography.
Women > Political activity > Texas > History > 20th century.
Women > Suffrage > Texas > History.
Texas > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Texas > Politics and government > 1951-
Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, > 1882-1964
Roosevelt, Eleanor, > 1884-1962
Friendship.
Politics and government
Politicians.
Women > Political activity.
Women politicians.
Women > Suffrage.
Texas.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Liz Carpenter
  • A Daughter of the New South
  • The Rise of a Public Woman
  • Suffrage First
  • Washington Lobbyist and National Leader
  • In League with Women Voters
  • Woman Citizen and Democratic Partisan
  • "Too Gallant a Walk"?: Running for the Senate, 1928
  • A Woman's New Deal
  • At War with the Texas Regulars, 1944-1946
  • Left Feminism, 1947-1964.

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