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Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Battle for a New South
Melba Porter Hay
出版University Press of Kentucky, 2009
ISBN08131352309780813135236
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=se2TAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Kentucky native Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920) was at the forefront of the suffrage movement at both the state and national levels. The great-granddaughter of Henry Clay and a descendant of several prominent Bluegrass families, Breckinridge inherited a sense of noblesse oblige that compelled her to speak for women's rights. However, it was her physical struggles and personal losses that transformed her from a privileged socialite into a selfless advocate for the disadvantaged. She devoted much of her life to the struggle for equal voting rights, but she also promoted the antituberc.