You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

What is the importance of Lizzie Stanton's work in Kansas as noted in the biography, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

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Although the campaign for woman's right to vote in Kansas took up a short period of Stanton's life, Fritz covers it in detail, perhaps so that it may serve as an example of how determined Stanton was as a campaigner. The Supreme Court ruled that the enfranchisement of women was up to the individual states, and a proposition giving Kansas women the right to vote had been offered. Stanton endured, in various humorous scenes, noisy pigs, bedbugs, mice walking across her while she tried to sleep, and uncomfortable carriages. Journeying across rivers and into remote parts of Kansas, she learned to ask the nearest farmstead for a place to sleep when the sun was setting. The Kansas proposition lost, but Stanton developed the fortitude that was to enable her to crisscross the United States for many years, campaigning for woman's suffrage.

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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton, BookRags