Author: Green, Elna C.
Title: Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
This book focuses on more than 800 women -- black and white -- across six Southern states to find meaning in the suffrage and antisuffrage movements in the South. Coming from diverse backgrounds, the activists often competed with each other within and between various groups. This book also helps describe why we should not imagine that anti-suffragism came from businessmen in the liquor industry or cotton textile manufacturies. Laura Clay of Kentucky is featured in this book as an important ally for Kate Gordon and served as a voice for Southern women activists at the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Dr. Elna C. Green is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.