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• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

  a Friendship That Changed the World

  Colman, Penny

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  A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Votes for Women!

  American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot

  Conkling, Winifred,

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  Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions. For 8th-12th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Firefly Letters

  a Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

  Engle, Margarita

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  Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Votes of Confidence

  a Young Person's Guide to American Elections

  Fleischer, Jeff,

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  Every four years, coverage of the presidential elections turns into a horse-race story about who is leading, and who said what then. Fleischer explains the past, present, and future of American elections; how the election process actually works and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vote!

  Women's Fight for Access to the Ballot Box

  Frazer, Coral Celeste,

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  In the battle for the right to vote, American women faced arrest, jail time, and ridicule. They organized marches, forged alliances with other social reform movements, and lobbied powerful politicians. They saw the right to vote as a guarantee of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rebel Voices

  the Global Fight for Women's Equality and the Right to Vote

  Knight, Eve Lloyd,

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  Learn all about the global fight for women's equality and the right to vote. For 6th-9th grades.

• Sojourner Truth

  Ain't I a Woman?

  McKissack, Pat, 1944-

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  A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. For 6th-8th grades.

• The Cure for Dreaming

  Winters, Cat,

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  In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who's paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remembering Inez

  the Last Campaign of Inez Milholland, Suffrage Martyr : Selections From The Suffragist, 1916

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  Using suffragists own words, Remembering Inez pays tribute to this beautiful young activist and the historic movement of which she was an important part. For 9th-12th grades.

• Things A Bright Girl Can Do

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  Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. For 7th-12th grades.