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Changing Tactics, Changing Identities: Woman’S Suffrage Protests In Washington, D.C., 1913-1920, Kimberly K. Johnson
Changing Tactics, Changing Identities: Woman’S Suffrage Protests In Washington, D.C., 1913-1920, Kimberly K. Johnson
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Since the founding of the United States, the task of determining who has the right to political participation has been difficult. As a result, many groups, including women, had to take dramatic steps to ensure their right to suffrage and access to public space. Beginning in 1913 with the first National Demonstration and the pickets that followed in 1917, these women began to claim national public space as a space for protest. This research seeks to determine and understand the evolution of identities embraced by suffragists as correlated with protest tactics used from 1913 to 1920 in Washington, D.C. The …
H. L. Loucks And The Dakota Ruralist: Voices Of Reform, Thom Guarnieri
H. L. Loucks And The Dakota Ruralist: Voices Of Reform, Thom Guarnieri
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It is the purpose of this paper, then, to study the impact that H. L. Loucks may have had on three major issues of South Dakota populism already stated: the populist position in the state, the formation of a third party and fusion with the Democrats. Neither major state historian of the period--George Kingsbury nor Doane Robinson--has been kind in his assessment of Loucks and the state's populists. Kingsbury, according to Yale historian Howard R. Lamar, hinted they were "a combination of cranks and demagogues." Robinson has even admitted insinuating that Loucks was a crook--a mistake he …