Crowley County Combined Library

Cordelia listens to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's story of her childhood and how it caused her to push for women's suffrage and to attempt to vote on Election Day, 1880. In 1920, all women were granted the vote.

Unlike most girls of her time, Susan B. Anthony received an education. Her schooling taught her that women should have the same rights as men, above all the right to vote. From the time she was a young woman until the day she died, Susan worked very hard to change American and make her dream a reality.

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

"When President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC, to start his first term, women's rights leader Alice Paul was ready to demand an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. The president thought that idea was ridiculous! THEIR FIGHT BEGAN. For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered Wilson and his supporters with arguments and protests. Their peaceful pickets were met with ridicule and violence. Even when thrown...

"Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu -- the decades-long fight for women's right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and thoroughly engaging resource in his first turn as nonfiction...