Why Can't Mother Vote?: Joseph Hanover and the Unfinished Business of Democracy

by Bill Haltom

Book Overview

On August 18, 1920, thirty-year-old State Representative Joseph Hanover of Memphis walked through the grand lobby of The Hermitage Hotel to be greeted by deafening cheers and jeers from women wearing yellow or red roses. Yellow roses symbolized their support for the proposed Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote; red roses opposed it. Joe Hanover had become the nation's leading male voice in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733362630
• ISBN13: 9781733362634
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Hillhelen Group LLC
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"