Summer Suffragists: Woman Suffrage Activists in Scituate Massachusetts

A surprising number of nationally recognized suffragist leaders spent summers in seaside Scituate Massachusetts. This book creates a revealing portrait of their lives in what was arguably the nations summer suffragist capital using original research and previously unpublished records. It also offers a highly readable account of their personal and activist lives in Boston New York Washington and elsewhere fighting for womens right to vote. It is both local and national history still relevant to our times when the right to vote and the right to protest are under assault.