Summary: With a record number of female candidates in the 2020 election and women's rights an increasingly urgent topic in the news, it's crucial that we understand the history that got us where we are now. For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights for American women, of every race, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it. Here are the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020

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Jones, Martha S.

Summary: "According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

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Bjornlund, Lydia D.

Summary: "Examines leaders of the suffrage movement, the role of African American women in the movement, militant suffragists, and antisuffragists."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2003

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