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Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the long march for women's rights
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- Book Synopsis
- In February 1913 young firebrand activist "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones defied convention and the doubts of better-known suffragists such as Alice Paul, Jane Addams, and Carrie Chapman Catt to muster an unprecedented equal rights army. Jones and "Colonel" Ida Craft marched 250 miles at the head of their all-volunteer platoon, advancing from New York City to Washington, DC in the dead of winter, in what was believed to be the longest dedicated women's rights march in American history. Along the way their band of protestors overcame violence, intimidation, and bigotry, their every step documented by journalist-embeds who followed the self-styled army down far-flung rural roads and into busy urban centers bristling with admiration and enmity. At march's end in Washington, more than 100,000 spectators cheered and jeered Rosalie's army in a reception said to rival a president's inauguration. This first-ever book-length biography details Jones's indomitable and original brand of boots-on-the-ground activism, from the 1913 March on Washington that brought her international fame to later-life campaigns for progressive reform in the American West and on her native Long Island. Consistently at odds with conservatives and conformists, the fiercely independent Jones was a prototypical social justice warrior, one who never stopped marching to her own drummer. Long after retiring her equal rights army, Jones advocated nonviolence and fair trade, authored a book on economics and international peace, and ran for Congress, earning a law degree, a PhD, and a lifelong reputation as a tireless defender of the dispossessed
- About The Author
- Former newspaper sports editor Zachary Michael Jack teaches courses in literary journalism and creative writing at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. His work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Des Moines Register, and on Chicago Public Radio and Iowa Public Radio, among many others.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781476681160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, (16 March 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 278
- Weight
- 367 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 14 mm
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