Showing Silk Stockings & Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920-1963 by Pamela Tyler

Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes "Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes" is a narrative history of organized, politically active white women in twentieth-century New Orleans. Viewing their involvement as a link between pre-1920s progressivism and 1960s feminism, Pamela Tyler tells how these upper- and middle-class women sought and exercised power at the state and local levels through lobbying, fundraising, endorsements, watchdog activi... Full description