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An exception, Traister wrote, is One Woman, One Vote, a 1995
essay collection edited by Marjorie J. Spruill that NewSage
Press published as a companion to a PBS documentary of the
same name. The publisher is releasing a revised and expanded
second edition in spring 2020.
“It tells the overall story, from why women didn’t have the
vote, and why a suffrage movement was necessary in the first
place,” Spruill says, “all the way through to ‘what difference did
it make?’ ” The focus, she says, is not just on the big moments
but on incremental change, as women of all backgrounds
strategized “how to get men to agree that women should have
the vote.”
Spruill, a professor emerita of history at the University of
South Carolina, has concentrated her research on the South,
where, she says, “the suffrage movement had the hardest time,
the most obstacles, and least success.” She adds that she values
the criticism about racism in the ranks, in the leadership, and
in some of the strategies suffragists used in pursuit of the vote.
“People are right to deplore the fact that there was so much
prejudice against African-Americans getting voting rights,”
she says, adding that those focused on national suffrage were
“between a rock and a hard place,” fighting to get the amend-
ment through Congress and the
Jim Crow South.
In February 2020 Simon and
Schuster will publish Suffrage by
retired history professor Ellen
Carol DuBois; Spruill calls her
“one of the most well-known and
prolific scholars of the suffrage
movement in the United States.”
(DuBois also has written an intro-
duction to a new edition of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s autobi-
ography; see “The Political Is
Personal,” p. 24.)
DuBois’s editor, S&S v-p and
executive editor Bob Bender, says Suffrage is meant to have
wide appeal, in bookstores and on college campuses. It too
addresses the fact that women of color were “largely margin-
alized in the overall movement—represented, but never at the
center of it,” Bender notes. DuBois writes about the contribu-
tions of abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner
Truth, for one, and journalist and antilynching activist Ida B.
Wells, who marched alongside her state’s white delegation to