A Vote for Women: Celebrating the Women's Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment
Title | A Vote for Women: Celebrating the Women's Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | St James's House |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781906670887 |
August 2020 marked the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women's right to vote across the US. A Vote for Women celebrates this major landmark, combining an in-depth history of the suffrage movement with extensive archival photography and accounts of its legacy up to the present day.
Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment
Title | Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy B. Kennedy |
Publisher | WW Norton |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1324004169 |
A bold new collection showcasing the trailblazing individuals who fought for women’s suffrage, honoring the Nineteenth Amendment’s centennial anniversary. On August 18, 1920, women in the United States secured their right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Their fight for suffrage took decades of campaigning and marching, protesting and picketing, speeches and imprisonments. Millions of women across the country gave their all to achieve victory. From Lucretia Mott, who stoked the first flames of the suffrage movement in the 1800s, to Alice Paul, the militant twentieth-century suffragist who helped clinch ratification, Women Win the Vote! maps the road to the Nineteenth Amendment through the lives of nineteen of these fierce and courageous women who paved the way. With vivid profiles of iconic figures like Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as those who may be less well-known, like Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Adelina Otero-Warren, this vibrant collection celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and the daring individuals who upended tradition to empower future generations of women.
The Suffragents
Title | The Suffragents PDF eBook |
Author | Brooke Kroeger |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2017-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438466315 |
Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.
Suffrage at 100
Title | Suffrage at 100 PDF eBook |
Author | Stacie Taranto |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1421438690 |
Suffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971—remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. This is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women's access to, and influence on, political power remains frustratingly uneven, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. Essays touch on • labor and civil rights • education • environmentalism • enfranchisement and voter suppression • conservatism vs. liberalism • indigeneity and transnationalism • LGBTQ and personal politics • Pan-Asian, Chicana, and black feminisms • commemoration and public history • and much more. Contributors: Melissa Estes Blair, Eileen Boris, Marisela R. Chávez, Claire Delahaye, Nicole Eaton, Liette Gidlow, Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq), Emily Suzanne Johnson, Dean J. Kotlowski, Monica L. Mercado, Johanna Neuman, Kathleen Banks Nutter, Katherine Parkin, Ellen G. Rafshoon, Bianca Rowlett, Sarah B. Rowley, Ana Stevenson, Barbara Winslow, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Nancy Beck Young
Creativity and Persistence
Title | Creativity and Persistence PDF eBook |
Author | National Endowment for the Arts |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-08-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780578714257 |
The National Endowment for the Arts commemorates how the arts were critical to the ultimate success of the women's suffrage movement--just as they have been critical to countless social and political movements before and since. The arts--from poetry to visual arts to fashion--have a unique ability to serve as a rallying cry, disseminating messages across large audiences, and inspiring us in a way that few other things can.
Finish the Fight!
Title | Finish the Fight! PDF eBook |
Author | Veronica Chambers |
Publisher | Versify |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 035840830X |
This exciting collaboration with the New York Times will reveal the untold stories of the diverse heroines who fought for the 19th amendment. On the 100th anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the women whose courage helped change the fabric of America.
Winning the Vote
Title | Winning the Vote PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cooney |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
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A beautifully illustrated and fact-filled history of American women's drive for political equality from the 1840s to 1920 and after. Top quality reproductions of rarely seen historical photographs, posters, leaflets, and color illustrations, with over 75 profiles of leaders of this early, nearly forgotten nonviolent civil rights movement. Collectable First Edition.