Here are some ideas that clubwomen can do while staying at home and social distancing: However, let’s continue to celebrate that important right-to-vote milestone for women during the next club year, through August 2021. Constitution, giving women the right to vote in August 1920, after a nearly 75 year effort!ĭue to COVID-19 restrictions, many of those plans have had to be cancelled. I have heard that many clubs had wonderful plans to celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the passage of the 19 th Amendment to the U.S. How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea by Susan Campbell Bartolettiīold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote by Kirsten GillibrandĬhasing Freedom: the Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B.THE SUFFRAGISTS WERE IN THE FINAL PUSH TO ACHIEVE VOTES-FOR-WOMEN DURING THE 1918-19 FLU EPIDEMIC! THEY PERSISTED! With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote by Ann Bausum

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionneįight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote by Barb Rosenstock Roses and Radicals: the Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn Something Worth Doing by Jane KirkpatrickĪ Well-behaved Woman: a Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Fowler Women of the Suffrage Movement by Janice E. Woman Suffrage & Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 by Sara Egge Sisters: the Lives of America’s Suffragists by Jean H.

The Privilege for Which We Struggled: Leaders of the Womans Suffrage Movement in Minnesota by Heidi Bauer The Women’s Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner

The Woman’s Hour: the Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. If there’s a title you’d like your library to purchase, you are welcome to suggest it with the “Suggest a Purchase” option.

However, women of color faced restrictions on their voting rights well into the 1960s.īelow you will find titles from our collection covering the topic of suffrage, from the efforts of women in the Midwest, to black women’s battle for the right to vote. This week we’re celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted the right to vote to women! This historic amendment declared that the rights of citizens of the United States would not be denied on account of sex.

Sisters by Jean H. Baker