Joan Marie Johnson is Director for Faculty at Northwestern University, USA. She has written extensively about the history of women and gender, philanthropy, feminism, race, social reform, and education.

Part I: Background 1. Introduction Part II: Analysis 2. Early Demands for Women's Rights 3. Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement 4. Women's Rights Convention Begin 5. Suffrage and Citizenship after the Civil War 6. The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the "Home Protection Ballot," and Women's Clubs 7. State Suffrage Compaigns in the Nineteenth Century 8. The Suffrage Movement Expands 9. Infighting at NAWSA Headquarters 10. Victory in California 11. Suffragists Take to the Streets 12. Rival National Associations 13. The Public Relations Campaign to Win Support for Suffrage 14. Campaign Strategy in Illinois, Iowa, and New York 15. Lobbying Congress for the Nineteenth Amendment 16. The NWP and NAWSA in South Carolina, New Mexico, and Texas 17. Suffragists Win Supprt in Congress for a Federal Amendment 18. Tennessee: the Thirty-Sixth State to Ratify the Nineteenth Amendment Part III: Assessment 19. Conclusion: The Nineteenth Amendment and Voting Rights from 1920 to the Present Part IV: Documents