The Vote: Women's Fierce Fight

The Vote: Women's Fierce Fight, by award-winning author Penny Colman tells the gripping story of the battle for woman suffrage in America through first-hand accounts, newspaper headlines and articles, anecdotes, songs, poems, documents, cartoons, and photographs.

Colman interweaves contested issues involving race, class, strategies, tactics, and politics. Replete with political intrigues and betrayals; pageantry and parades; pickets, violent mobs, and forced feeding,

The Vote is infused with women's words and vivid personalities spanning many generations. A thought-provoking true story, The Vote resonates with key current issues including voting rights and women's participation in the governance of America.

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pub. 2019, 435 pages, paper,