CONTENTS
Reading edition
PART ONE
1913-1914
I. Introduction 3
II. Alice Paul 6
III. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns 14
IV. F Street and the Early Days 18
V. Making the Federal Amendment an Issue 31
VI. Pressure on Congress 49
VII. Pressure on the President 57
VIII. The Struggle With the Rules Committee 66
IX. The First Appeal to the Women Voters 73
X. Congress Takes up the Suffrage Amendment 87
PART TWO
1915-1916
I. The Woman Voters Appeal to the President and to Congress 99
II. The New Headquarters and the Middle Years 123
III. The Conflict with the Judiciary Committee 130
IV. More Pressure on the President 144
V. Forming the Woman’s Party 149
VI. Still More Pressure on the President 164
VII. The Second Appeal to the Women Voters 172
VIII. Hail and Farewell 183
PART THREE
1917
I. The Perpetual Delegation 193
1. The Peaceful Picketing 193
2. The Peaceful Reception 212
3. The War on Pickets 220
4. The Court and the Pickets 259
5. The Strange Ladies 261
II. Telling the Country 292
III. More Pressure on Congress 299
PART FOUR
VICTORY
I. The New Headquarters and the Later Years 311
II. Lobbying 317
III. Organizing 327
IV. The President Capitulates and the House Surrenders 336
V. Fighting for Votes in the Senate 340
VI. Burning the President’s Words 355
VII. The President Appeals to the Senate to Pass the Suffrage Amendment 366
VIII. Picketing the Senate 372
IX. The Third Appeal to the Women Voters 380
X. The President Includes Suffrage in His Campaign for Congress 384
XI. Burning the President’s Words Again 386
XII. The Watch Fires of Freedom 391
XIII. The Appeal to the President on His Return 408
XIV. The Appeal to the President on His Departure 412
XV. The President Obtains the Last Vote and Congress Surrenders 415
XVI. Ratification 418
XVII. The Last Days 464
Index 477
2