Suffragette Women Pot Metal Bookends - a Pair

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Charming pair of Pot metal bookends featuring a 3 dimensional representation of twin suffragettes curtcying in a lovely crimson bonnet … more Charming pair of Pot metal bookends featuring a 3 dimensional representation of twin suffragettes curtcying in a lovely crimson bonnet and dress. Both stand upon a rubust base of marble. Beautifully detailed piece. They are a stunningly beautiful, rare, early set of bookends. Very nice condition with no dents or cracks - there is some paint loss and a few small spots of corrosion. Heavy Pot Metal Weighing ~ 3 1/2 lbs each
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.Women’s Rights Movement Begins


The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and 30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had.

At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States—temperance leagues, religious movements, moral-reform societies, anti-slavery organizations—and in many of these, women played a prominent role.
Meanwhile, many American women were beginning to chafe against what historians have called the “Cult of True Womanhood”: that is, the idea that the only “true” woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family.
Put together, all of these contributed to a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a woman and a citizen of the United States. less less