Votes for Girls!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Poll

For almost 150 years, American ladies didn’t have the suitable to vote. On August 18, 1920, they gained that proper, when the nineteenth Modification to the Structure was ratified eventually. To attain that victory, a few of the fiercest, most passionate ladies in historical past marched, protested, and generally even broke the regulation—for greater than eight many years.

 

From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who based the suffrage motion on the 1848 Seneca Falls Conference, to Sojourner Reality and her well-known “Ain’t I a Girl?” speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in jail, that is the story of the American ladies’s suffrage motion and the personal lives that fueled its leaders’ dedication.
Votes for Girls! explores suffragists’ usually highly effective, generally troublesome relationship with the intersecting temperance and abolition campaigns, and contains an unflinching have a look at a few of the uglier moments in ladies’s combat for the vote.

 

By turns illuminating, harrowing, and empowering,
Votes for Girls! paints a vibrant image of the ladies whose tireless battle nonetheless evokes political, human rights, and social justice activism.