Mary Livermore & The Illinois Women's Suffrage Movement ..... 2
Bruce D. Janu and Wendy Hamand Venet
Illinois Copperheads & The American Civil War ....... 15
Delores Archaimbault and Terry A. Barnhart
Ida Wells-Barnett Confronts Race & Gender Discrimination ... 30
Wanda A. Hendricks, Paulette Pennington Jones, and Careda Rolland Taylor
Michael Nave and Lynnita Sommer
Everett Dirksen & The 1964 Civil Rights Act ...... 48
Stan Mendenhall
Bibliography. ............... 56
Contributors' Biographies............ Inside Back Cover