Suffragistsrecognized that the media played an essential role in thewomen's suffrage movement& the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media ofsuffragist journalism & publications.This collection offers new research on media issues related to thewomen's suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, & innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media & debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage byAfrican American&Mormon-orientedmedia, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, & the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.Contributors:Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, & Robin SundaramoorthyMAURINE BEASLEYis a professor emerita of journalism at the University of Maryland. Hernbooks includeWomen of the Washington Press,Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady, &First Ladies & the Press.SHERILYN COX BENNION,a former Fulbright scholar, spent most of her teaching career at Humboldt State University in California, where she chaired the Department of Journalism &the Women’s Studies program&retired as a professor emerita.JINX COLEMAN BROUSSARDis the author of the national award-winning bookAfrican-American Foreign Correspondents: A Historyas well asGiving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists.