Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the...
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The first analysis of suffragist Alice Paul's controversial rhetorical strategies
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction xiAlice Paul's Formation as Activist 1The Commitment to Nonviolence 21Reaching the Group through Words and Pictures 42Parades and Other Events: Escalating the Nonviolent Pressure 76Lobbying and Deputations 117The Political Boycott 141Picketing Wilson 157Hunger Strikes and Jail 191At Nonviolent War 215Conclusion 243Works Cited 249Index 265
