Path of Progress: One Man's Fight for Women's Rights

It's the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons, he is struck with the irony that his audiences are composed mostly of women--that segment of the citizenry who cannot vote. Thus begins his campaign for women's suffrage. A large portion of the public believes a wom...