suffrage

Presents the life of Alice Paul, who helped give women the right to vote, by leading a march on Washington, being arrested, and meeting with President Woodrow Wilson.

An Italian immigrant boy joins the large Aldrich family as they stage a women's suffrage play and listen to messages on the wireless radio about the ocean voyage of the Titanic.

An eight-year-old girl deals with the women's suffrage movement that rages during World War I.

An illustrated biography of American women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton that describes her involvement in the antislavery movement, the significant figures with whom she worked for women's rights, the obstacles she faced, and the progress that her work brought about.

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort, " and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.

Presents a study of the temperance movement, focusing on the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the suffrage movement, identifying the campaigns as separate, but equally important expressions of early feminism, and crucial to later demands by women for equal rights and protection under the law.

A biography of the woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenthcentury America.

In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.