{"id":139,"date":"2018-11-12T04:15:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-11-04T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:14:50","slug":"review-votes-for-women-american-suffragists-and-the-battle-for-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/review-votes-for-women-american-suffragists-and-the-battle-for-the-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Votes<\/a>
\nVotes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot<\/a><\/strong>
\nby Winifred Conkling
\nAlgonquin Young Readers, February 13, 2018<\/strong>
\nGrades 8-12, 320 pages<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the publisher says about Votes for Women!:<\/h1>\n

For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes even broke the law\u2014for more than eight decades.<\/p>\n

From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, to Sojourner Truth and her famous \u201cAin\u2019t I a Woman?\u201d speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in prison, this is the story of the American women\u2019s suffrage movement and the private lives that fueled its leaders\u2019 dedication.\u00a0Votes for Women!<\/i>\u00a0explores suffragists\u2019 often powerful, sometimes difficult relationship with the intersecting temperance and abolition campaigns, and includes an unflinching look at some of the uglier moments in women\u2019s fight for the vote.<\/p>\n

By turns illuminating, harrowing, and empowering,\u00a0Votes for Women!<\/i>\u00a0paints a vibrant picture of the women whose tireless battle still inspires political, human rights, and social justice activism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what the critics say about Votes for Women!:<\/h1>\n