Path of Progress: One Man's Fight for Women's Rights - Softcover

Burlingame, Flora Beach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947392417 ISBN 13: 9781947392410

Publisher: Acorn Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

It’s the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons, he is struck with the irony that his audiences are composed mostly of women—that segment of the citizenry who cannot vote. Thus begins his campaign for women’s suffrage. A large portion of the public believes a woman’s place is in the home, that she has no business in politics, and probably isn’t smart enough to vote. Every two years the state legislature considers putting an amendment on the ballot for a public vote on the issue and time after time it doesn’t get that far. The Reverend John Stevenson never gives up. Through the triumphs and tragedies of his own personal life, he is determined to forge the path to progress.

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About the Author

Flora Beach Burlingame has been published in the free-lance magazine market, won awards for her short stories, and wrote for The Fresno Bee, a major California newspaper. In addition to features and a regular column, The Bee commissioned her to write a hundred years of history on three California counties for a special Centennial edition. Inspired by her father, a history teacher, stories of the past dominate Flora's writing. In 2011, after countless hours of research, her historical novel Charcoal and Chalk, John Ogilvie and the Beginnings of Black Education in Texas was published. That story, based on an actual teach of the freedmen during Civil Ward Reconstruction, also led to Flora's current book, Path of Progress, the unique perspective of a man's fight for women's rights during the late eighteen hundreds and early twentieth century. Flora has lived in various California locations and currently resides in beautiful, western Washington State.

Edition details

• Publisher: Acorn Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947392417
• ISBN 13: 9781947392410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 445