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- Title
"MAKE THE MAP ALL WHITE": THE MEANING OF MAPS IN THE PROHIBITION AND SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGNS.
- Authors
SCHULTEN, SUSAN
- Abstract
Maps haue long been deployed as instruments of power, protest, and reform in American history. In the antebellum era, Northerners used maps to galuanize opposition to the expan - sion of slauery beyond the South. These dramatic and urgent anti-slauery maps served as powerful models for two of the most ambitious challenges to American late in the twentieth century: prohibition and woman 's suffrage. Both movements began with regional strengths-suffrage in the West, prohibition in the South. Suffragists and prohibitionists widely circulated maps to highlight those legislative achievements and thereby generate further momentum for their respective causes. After 1913, both the suffrage and prohibition mouements pursued not just state-level campaigns but also federal amendments. In this context, maps became even more critical tools to establish and amplify support across the entire nation. A closer look at the common slogan of the two movements, "Make the Map All White," reveals the degree to which both suffragists and prohibitionists nauigated racial, ethnic, and geographical divisions in order to achieve their legislative and constitutional goals. Maps were at the heart of these strategies.
- Subjects
MAPS; WOMEN'S suffrage; SUFFRAGISTS; PROHIBITIONISTS; SLAVERY
- Publication
University of Colorado Law Review, 2021, Vol 92, Issue 3, p877
- ISSN
0041-9516
- Publication type
Article