Most people think the early women's rights movement was focused on suffrage. But as Diane Eickhoff explains in this excerpt from her talk at the 2007 Kansas Book Festival, women had almost no rights in the mid-19th century, and their agenda was a lot more ambitious than voting rights.


Note Diane’s medal, given to her in a ceremony earlier in the day for Revolutionary Heart, a 2007 Kansas Notable Book!

October 7, 2007

When women wanted more than the vote

 
 

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