Minnie Fisher Cunningham

An important and timely book that not only advances understanding of twentieth-century Texas political history, an understudied period, but also speaks to significant debates about women's political endeavors in the years between suffrage and the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Cunningham's life story demonstrates that feminist activism did not disappear so much as it assumed alternative forms. * Nancy Beck Young, McKendree College *
A seamless, well-organized, and thoroughly researched political biography of Minnie Fisher Cunningham... this work is thoroughly grounded in twentieth-century state and national history--politics, reform, race relations, labor issues, war and economic depression, and women's movements. This is the book's most impressive and edifying achievement. * The Journal of American History *
excellently written and well-documented biography . . . . a welcome and substantive contribution to the study of women's political activism in the fight for state and federal suffrage laws. * H-Net *
Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith have told the Minnie Fisher Cunningham saga with political sophistication and in sufficient detail to illuminate a century of political life in Texas and the country as a whole . For this deeply researched, generous, tough-minded biography, we are indebted to Ms. McArthur and Mr. Smith, who have esurrected a woman of whom Texans can be inordinately proud. * The Dallas Morning News *