Carry Nation
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Women’s History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: An activist in the temperance and women’s rights movements, Nation gained international notoriety by smashing saloons. She demonstrated the strength and place of women in temperance reform.
Early Life
Born to George Moore and Mary Campbell Moore, Carry (written in her illiterate father’s hand in the family Bible using this spelling) Amelia Moore grew up in the slave culture of Kentucky. Her father was a prosperous planter and stock trader; her mother suffered from a delusionary mental illness and assumed she was Queen Victoria,...
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