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The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession (editie 2021)

door Jennifer Chiaverini (Auteur)

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women's March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman's suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all.

To inspire support for the campaign, Alice organizes a magnificent procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, the day before the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, a firm antisuffragist.

Joining the march is thirty-nine-year-old New Yorker Maud Malone, librarian and advocate for women's and workers' rights. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Maud has acquired a reputationâ??and a criminal recordâ??for interrupting politicians' speeches with pointed questions they'd rather ignore.

Civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett resolves that women of color must also be included in the marchâ??and the proposed amendment. Born into slavery in Mississippi, Ida worries that white suffragists may exclude Black women if it serves their own interests.

On March 3, 1913, the glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to block the parade routeâ??jeering, shouting threats, assaulting the marchersâ??endangering not only the success of the demonstration but the women's very lives.

Inspired by actual events, The Women's March offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history, a turning point in the struggle for women… (meer)

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Titel:The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
Auteurs:Jennifer Chiaverini (Auteur)
Info:William Morrow (2021), 352 pages
Verzamelingen:Jouw bibliotheek
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Trefwoorden:E-Audiobook, Feminism, Women's History, Recommended on Girlibooks, Racism, Suffragettes, TIOLI, 2021

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Jennifer Chiaverini’s The Women’s March is a fact-based novel centering around the drive to plan and complete a massive march in support of women’s suffrage on the day before Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 presidential inauguration.

It suffers from being simultaneously too broad and too narrow in viewpoint. The drive for women’s suffrage in the U.S. extended from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920 (and in some senses it continues today as the struggle for a definitive Equal Rights Amendment continues to wax and wane). A single work could hardly be expected to hit even the high points of such a long and complex issue, so Chiaverini has concentrated on the period surrounding the 1912 presidential campaign and the early days of the Wilson presidency. In order for the story to make sense, however, she has had to backfill 64 years of the struggle, and to provide an overview of the movement as it existed during the period on which she is concentrating. This introduces a huge and complex cast of characters, organizations, and social issues.

Meantime, she is also narrowing in on three major historical characters – suffrage amendment supporter Dr. Alice Paul, of New Jersey, workers’ rights advocate Maud Malone of New York, and pioneering Black journalist and community organizer Ida B. Wells-Barnett of Chicago. Of these three women, Wells-Barnett is easily the most compelling, yet her story is more parallel to that of the other two characters in its narrow focus on the women’s march of 1913.

There’s a lot of Sturm und Drang here regarding internecine strife among the various factions of the suffrage movement, and entirely too much ink devoted to who wore what at which event. More serious, more compelling, and ultimately much more disturbing, is the bone-deep racism and classism of much of the movement, reaching all the way back to the Seneca Falls meeting and its refusal to invite Sojourner Truth even as it courted and featured Frederick Douglass. Most of us would like our heroes to be … well, heroic … and it’s beyond disturbing to see the leaders of the various factions squabbling over who got to be center stage while at the same time continuing to deny full participation by women of color in order to appease racist elements from the Jim Crow south. Their excuse – ranging all the way back to Susan B. Anthony – was that it would be inappropriate to endanger political and social acceptance of votes for women if the issue were – you should excuse the expression – muddied by an insistence on including women of color within that group. This is largely what makes Wells-Barnett’s part of the story so compelling. One could wish that the focus had been on this stubborn, brilliant, heroic woman.

Chiaverini, however, has chosen a wider canvas, and her title – The Women’s March – works on several layers, as it describes the whole of the movement, the pre-inaugural parade, and a lesser-known but equally ambitious 250-mile foot march from New York to Washington D.C. undertaken as a half-publicity stunt, half-public declaration of intent by a group of women known as “The Army of the Hudson”. Together, the New Yorkers and the women from across the nation who determined to force Wilson into a public declaration of his stance on the issue, formed what Chiaverini calls “the greatest peacetime demonstration ever witnessed in the United States”. Press reports from the event estimate that 5,000 marchers participated in the procession up Pennsylvania Avenue, drawing crowds of up to 250,000. Along the way, they battled inadequate crowd control, physical assault from anti-suffrage supporters, and a determined silence from Wilson, whose racist and sexist attitudes would ultimately permeate his administration. Over a hundred of the marchers were hospitalized with injuries, many of them sustained while members of the D.C. police force stood by and refused to intervene. And in an unintended but eerie mirroring of events that would occur 109 years later within a stone’s throw of the marchers’ route, some of the most violent attackers “wrote to brag that they had joined in the mayhem and had no regrets”.

The more things change, the more it seems they stay the same.

Overall, The Women’s March is a valiant attempt, but it remains a heavy lift for any reader. Only those who are intensely interested in this microcosm of the long struggle for equal voting rights will get much more out of it than some inspiration for further reading. ( )
  LyndaInOregon | Jun 13, 2023 |
This book follows the lives of three women as they fight for women's suffrage in the US. Alice Paul spent years working in the suffrage movement in the UK. Upon returning to the US, she is determined to spark new interest in the movement. Maud Malone, known as a heckler, is known for interrupting politicians speeches, asking how they feel about women's votes. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an African American woman, is interested in votes for all women, not just the white women who have to-date been the focus on the movement. Alice, determined to fight for a constitutional amendment, organizes a march scheduled the day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.

This was a fairly quick and engaging read. The characters were interesting and dynamic. I know relatively little about the topic and found myself googling everyone after reading the book. Overall, highly recommended. ( )
  JanaRose1 | Nov 9, 2022 |
This book traces the story of an event I was unfamiliar with--the Women's Procession of March 1913, held in Washington DC the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. The Women's March was to promote the women's suffrage and to force the new president to ask Congress to amend the Constitution to give all women the right to vote. Except--what about black women and other women of color? Why not have state's take care of this right, as a few already had? What this book does is present this issue with all the complexities that confronted the suffragists of that time. Race was a huge issue, but so was class and misogyny. ( )
  mojomomma | Dec 17, 2021 |
I am very grateful to Jennifer Chiaverini for writing this book. She uncovers many dark days in our country's history; racism, antisuffrage feelings, inequality of all kinds. She also describes how women, both black and white, rich and poor, worked so hard for the rights we have today. We must celebrate all we have accomplished, not dwell on the wrongs of the past. I am sure these suffragists would not want to highlight where we have been to the detriment of the accomplishments leading us to everything we have earned over the years. No country is perfect. But we are proud of where we are at now and look forward to what we can accomplish in the future. ( )
  khoyt | Nov 15, 2021 |
Excellent story of the 1913 march of women from New York to Washington D C. The courage, the fortitude shown by these suffer age should encourage young women today to keep fighting for their rights.

Alice Paul, Ida Black, and Maud Malone each experienced life events that shaped their fight for the vote. They not only had to fight men but also women who did not agree with women voting.

The author provides the humor, the tears, and the awards from their actions. In todays world we need these women to remind us that freedom comes with a cost but the benefits outweighs the the struggle.

Recommend for high school and beyond. Will made a good gift to anyone.
Hightly recommended. ( )
  oldbookswine | Nov 4, 2021 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women's March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman's suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all.

To inspire support for the campaign, Alice organizes a magnificent procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, the day before the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, a firm antisuffragist.

Joining the march is thirty-nine-year-old New Yorker Maud Malone, librarian and advocate for women's and workers' rights. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Maud has acquired a reputationâ??and a criminal recordâ??for interrupting politicians' speeches with pointed questions they'd rather ignore.

Civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett resolves that women of color must also be included in the marchâ??and the proposed amendment. Born into slavery in Mississippi, Ida worries that white suffragists may exclude Black women if it serves their own interests.

On March 3, 1913, the glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to block the parade routeâ??jeering, shouting threats, assaulting the marchersâ??endangering not only the success of the demonstration but the women's very lives.

Inspired by actual events, The Women's March offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history, a turning point in the struggle for women

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