suffrage

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.

This well-researched book features quotes by significant players in the women's rights movement and primary sources that show an insider's views of events.

Offers 12 different views on the fight for gender equality. Each page provides information about what happened during the Women's Rights Movement and how it affected different people.

Explore women's suffrage and the journey that many women in the United States took to fight for equality, opportunity, and most importantly the right to vote.

"Presents a fully documented account of the trial of woman's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony for daring to vote in a federal election in 1872, which catapulted her into the very front rank of the feminist movement"--Provided by publisher.

This book encourages readers to think about what the world would be like with more women leaders and how that might be accomplished, and empowers girls to seek leadership positions.

A collection of 29 original essays dealing with the indomitable spirit of American women, written by such activists, academics, politicians, and journalists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rosalynn Carter, Martina Navratilova, Anne Firor Scott, and Beverly J. Harvard, police chief for the city of Atlanta.

Presents the thoughts of Fredrika Bremer as she describes her journey to Cuba and the women she came to know that transformed the life of this nineteenth century women's rights pioneer.