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Title Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot / Winifred Conkling.
Publisher Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Description 312 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Edition First Edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 SI-Upper Level  324.623 CONK Nearby on shelf  30661911962499 03-18-24  AVAILABLE
 SK-Upper Level  324.623 CONK  30662911707983 07-16-20  AVAILABLE
 SM-Upper Level  324.623 CONK  30660912931446 11-22-20  AVAILABLE
 SN-Main Room  324.623 CONK  30663911706579 09-11-19  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
NOTE Accelerated Reader MG+ 8.5 12 196237
Contents "Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy!": before Seneca Falls -- "All men and women are created equal": Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- "The right is ours": creating a national suffrage movement -- "In thought and sympathy we were one": a feminist friendship -- "You must be true alike to the women and the Negroes": division in the suffrage movement -- "Madam, you are not a citizen": Victoria Woodhull speaks to Congress -- "I have been & gone & done it!!": Susan B. Anthony votes for president -- "We ask justice, we ask equality": forward step by step -- "Failure is impossible!": the next generation -- "Votes for women": the second wave of suffragists -- "How long must women wait for liberty?": parades and protests -- "Power belongs to good": the silent sentinels -- "This ordeal was the most terrible torture": hungering for justice -- "Don't forget to be a good boy": the battle for ratification.
Summary "The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote"-- Provided by publisher.
Audience 1100L Lexile
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Young adult literature.
Other title American suffragists and the battle for the ballot
ISBN 9781616207342
1616207345