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The Status Of Woman Suffrage In Virginia 1909-1920, Betty C. Pitts
The Status Of Woman Suffrage In Virginia 1909-1920, Betty C. Pitts
Honors Theses
The woman suffrage movement in Virginia, as in other parts of the nation, must be viewed within the total context of reform which pervaded in the first two decades of the twentieth century in America. The evils associated with the industrial revolution, mass immigration, and the urban crisis produced in the minds of men and women a favorable climate for sweeping sociological changes. Despite the receptive attitudes of individual men and women, the woman suffrage movement could never have been successful without "a heroic mustering of effort....," which has never since been achieved by this same group expect during a …
A Political History Of The Poll Tax In Virginia, 1900-1950, Conley L. Edwards
A Political History Of The Poll Tax In Virginia, 1900-1950, Conley L. Edwards
Master's Theses
The poll tax occupies a unique place in Virginia's suffrage history. Basically a twentieth century device ostensibly originated to provide revenue for the state by requiring payment of a fee before the exercise of the franchise, there was probably no other practice quite as foreign to the expanding suffrage traditions of Virginia's history as the poll tax. The only precursor to this tax was a capitation tax levied intermittently, the first such tax appearing in 1623 in the form of a levy of ten pounds of tobacco to meet the debt arising from defenses against local Indians. Free Negroes and …
Governmental Elites In Three Virginia Counties: A Reappraisal Of The Turner Thesis, Harry Stuart Holman
Governmental Elites In Three Virginia Counties: A Reappraisal Of The Turner Thesis, Harry Stuart Holman
History Theses & Dissertations
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