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Author:

Conkling, Winifred, author.

Title:

Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot / Winifred Conkling.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Algonquin Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women--History--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Suffragists--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Women's rights--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Women--History.--United States--History.
Suffragists--United States--History.
Women's rights--United States--History.
Women--History.--United States--History.
Suffragists--United States--History.
Women's rights--United States--History.
JUVENILE NONFICTION--Women.--Women.
JUVENILE NONFICTION--Girls & Women.
JUVENILE NONFICTION--United States--19th Century.--19th Century.
Suffragists.
Women--Suffrage.
Women's rights.
United States.
Women--History.--United States--History.
Women's rights--United States--History.
Suffragists--United States--History.
History.
Juvenile works.
Young adult nonfiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index.

Contents:

"Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy!": before Seneca Falls -- "All men and women are created equal": Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- "The right is ours": creating a national suffrage movement -- "In thought and sympathy we were one": a feminist friendship -- "You must be true alike to the women and the Negroes": division in the suffrage movement -- "Madam, you are not a citizen": Victoria Woodhull speaks to Congress -- "I have been & gone & done it!!": Susan B. Anthony votes for president -- "We ask justice, we ask equality": forward step by step -- "Failure is impossible!": the next generation -- "Votes for women": the second wave of suffragists -- "How long must women wait for liberty?": parades and protests -- "Power belongs to good": the silent sentinels -- "This ordeal was the most terrible torture": hungering for justice -- "Don't forget to be a good boy": the battle for ratification -- In her own words : key primary sources.

Summary:

Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions.

ISBN:

1616207345
9781616207342

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1021069176

LCCN:

2017031132

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