Votes for Women - Juv & YA Nonfiction

Colorful illustrations accompany brief profiles of ten women who were integral to the success of the women's suffrage movement that got women the right to vote in the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells.

A brief history of American women's fight for voting rights.

"When President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC, to start his first term, women's rights leader Alice Paul was ready to demand an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. The president thought that idea was ridiculous! THEIR FIGHT BEGAN. For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered Wilson and his supporters with arguments and protests. Their peaceful pickets were met with ridicule and violence. Even when thrown...

"A history of the iconic first women's march in 1913 and the suffragists who led the way to passing the 19th amendment."--

When "Baby" Lottie learns of the Suffragette movement from her friend, Sara Crewe, she and a new maid at Miss Minchin's school become involved in defiance of Lottie's cold, distant father.

"The story of suffragette Alice Paul and her campaign to win women the right to vote"--Provided by publisher.

"Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu -- the decades-long fight for women's right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and thoroughly engaging resource in his first turn as nonfiction...

"For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes even broke the law--for more than eight decades. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention,...

This adaptation of the book Hillary Clinton calls "a page-turning drama and an inspiration" will spark the attention of young readers and teach them about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women's suffrage—just in time for the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. 
American women are so close to winning the right to vote. They've been fighting for more than seventy years and need approval...

"Myths about the history of women's rights in the US--focusing on the ratification of the 19th Amendment--are debunked; the real deal of what happened is explained"--