Minnie Fisher Cunningham : A Suffragist's Life in Politics.

By: McArthur, Judith NContributor(s): Smith, Harold LMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780198028505Subject(s): Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, -- 1882-1964 | Politicians -- United States -- Biography | Roosevelt, Eleanor, -- 1884-1962 -- Friends and associates | Women -- Political activity -- Texas -- History -- 20th century | Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Women politicians -- Texas -- Biography | Women politicians -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Minnie Fisher Cunningham : A Suffragist's Life in PoliticsDDC classification: 976.4/062/092 B LOC classification: E748.C966M35 2003Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 A DAUGHTER OF THE NEW SOUTH -- 2 THE RISE OF A PUBLIC WOMAN -- 3 SUFFRAGE FIRST -- 4 WASHINGTON LOBBYIST AND NATIONAL LEADER -- 5 IN LEAGUE WITH WOMEN VOTERS -- 6 WOMAN CITIZEN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTISAN -- 7 "TOO GALLANT A WALK"?: RUNNING FOR THE SENATE, 1928 -- 8 A WOMAN'S NEW DEAL -- 9 AT WAR WITH THE TEXAS REGULARS, 1944-1946 -- 10 LEFT FEMINISM, 1947-1964 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governor, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the first Americanwomen to pursue a career in party politics. Cunningham's professional life spanned a half century, thus illuminating our understanding of women in public life between the Progressive Era and the 1960s feminist movement.Cunningham entered politics through the suffrage movement and women's voluntary association work for health and sanitation in Galveston, Texas. She quickly became one of the most effective state suffrage leaders, helping to pass the bill in a region where opposition to women voters was strongest. InWashington, Cunningham was one of the core group of suffragists who lobbied the Nineteenth Amendment through Congress and then traveled the country campaigning for ratification. After women gained the right to vote across the nation, she helped found the nonpartisan National League of Women Votersand organized training schools to teach women the skills of grassroots organizing, creating publicity campaigns, and lobbying and monitoring legislative bodies. Through the League, she became acquainted with Eleanor Roosevelt, who credited one of her speeches with stimulating her own politicalactivity.Cunningham then turned to the Democratic Party, serving as an officer of the Woman's National Democratic Club and the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. In 1928 Cunningham became a candidate herself, making an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. An advocate of New Dealreforms, Cunningham was part of the movement in the 1930s to transform the Democratic Party into the women's party, and in 1944 she ran for governor on a pro-New DealSummary: platform.Cunningham's upbringing in rural Texas made her particularly aware of the political needs of farmers, women, union labor, and minorities, and she fought gender, class, and racial discrimination within a conservative power structure. In the postwar years, she was called the very heart and soul ofTexas liberalism as she helped build an electoral coalition of women, minorities, and male reformers that could sustain liberal politics in the state and bring to office candidates including Ralph Yarborough and Bob Eckhardt.A leader and role model for the post-suffrage generation, Cunningham was not satisfied with simply achieving the vote, but agitated throughout her career to use it to better the lives of others. Her legacy has been carried on by the many women to whom she taught successful grassroots strategies forpolitical organizing.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 A DAUGHTER OF THE NEW SOUTH -- 2 THE RISE OF A PUBLIC WOMAN -- 3 SUFFRAGE FIRST -- 4 WASHINGTON LOBBYIST AND NATIONAL LEADER -- 5 IN LEAGUE WITH WOMEN VOTERS -- 6 WOMAN CITIZEN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTISAN -- 7 "TOO GALLANT A WALK"?: RUNNING FOR THE SENATE, 1928 -- 8 A WOMAN'S NEW DEAL -- 9 AT WAR WITH THE TEXAS REGULARS, 1944-1946 -- 10 LEFT FEMINISM, 1947-1964 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governor, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the first Americanwomen to pursue a career in party politics. Cunningham's professional life spanned a half century, thus illuminating our understanding of women in public life between the Progressive Era and the 1960s feminist movement.Cunningham entered politics through the suffrage movement and women's voluntary association work for health and sanitation in Galveston, Texas. She quickly became one of the most effective state suffrage leaders, helping to pass the bill in a region where opposition to women voters was strongest. InWashington, Cunningham was one of the core group of suffragists who lobbied the Nineteenth Amendment through Congress and then traveled the country campaigning for ratification. After women gained the right to vote across the nation, she helped found the nonpartisan National League of Women Votersand organized training schools to teach women the skills of grassroots organizing, creating publicity campaigns, and lobbying and monitoring legislative bodies. Through the League, she became acquainted with Eleanor Roosevelt, who credited one of her speeches with stimulating her own politicalactivity.Cunningham then turned to the Democratic Party, serving as an officer of the Woman's National Democratic Club and the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. In 1928 Cunningham became a candidate herself, making an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. An advocate of New Dealreforms, Cunningham was part of the movement in the 1930s to transform the Democratic Party into the women's party, and in 1944 she ran for governor on a pro-New Deal

platform.Cunningham's upbringing in rural Texas made her particularly aware of the political needs of farmers, women, union labor, and minorities, and she fought gender, class, and racial discrimination within a conservative power structure. In the postwar years, she was called the very heart and soul ofTexas liberalism as she helped build an electoral coalition of women, minorities, and male reformers that could sustain liberal politics in the state and bring to office candidates including Ralph Yarborough and Bob Eckhardt.A leader and role model for the post-suffrage generation, Cunningham was not satisfied with simply achieving the vote, but agitated throughout her career to use it to better the lives of others. Her legacy has been carried on by the many women to whom she taught successful grassroots strategies forpolitical organizing.

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