Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Katha Pollitt
Introduction by Meredith Stabel and Zachary Turpin
A Note on the Text
Buffalo Bird Woman (Waheenee / Maaxiiriwia)
From Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden, As Recounted by Maxi’diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) of the Hidatsa Indian Tribe (ca. 1839–1932) (1917)
Woman’s Suffrage (1871)
Anna Julia Cooper
Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1892)
From From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (1891)
Letters to Judge Otis Lord (ca. 1878)
To a Friend (1832)
A Mother’s Love (1832)
Address to the Youth (1866)
From Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, and Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour; Together with some Account of the Great Religious Revivals in America (1846)
Julia A. J. Foote
From A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch (1879)
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Maternity Benefits and Reformers (1916)
From The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935)
The Right to Die (1935)
Emma Goldman
A New Declaration of Independence (1909)
Minorities versus Majorities (1910)
Marriage and Love (1910)
From The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (1854)
We Are All Bound Up Together (1866)
Woman’s Political Future (1894)
New Orleans Correspondence (1866)
On Horse Back—Saddle-Dash, No. 1 (1866)
Harriet Jacobs
Letter from a Fugitive Slave (1853)
From Gifts of Power (ca. 1830–1864)
Belva Lockwood
The Growth of Peace Principles (1895)
From Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: Or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (1861)
Ora Eddleman Reed
Indian Tales between Pipes (1906)
An Open Letter to the Educational League of Georgia (1889)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
Introduction to History of Woman Suffrage (1889)
An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston, February 27, 1833
Lucy Stone
From Lucy Stone (1850)
Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest (1855)
Mary Church Terrell
Lynching from a Negro’s Point of View (1904)
What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States (1907)
The Negro among Anglo-Saxon Poets (1898)
From Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave (1850)
Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
From Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892)
From A Wheel within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, with Some Reflections by the Way (1895)
From Do Everything: A Handbook for the World’s White Ribboners (1895)
Sarah Winnemucca
From Life among the Piutes, Their Wrongs and Claims (1883)
Victoria Woodhull
To the Women of the South (1870)
From The School Days of an Indian Girl (1900)
From An Indian Teacher among Indians (1900)
Acknowledgments