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Author Conkling, Winifred, author.

Title Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot / Winifred Conkling.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Teen  TEEN 324.6 CONKLING    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Young Adult  YA 324.623 C    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN 324.6 CON    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  324.6 CONKLING    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  324.623 CON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Young Adult  YA 324.623 CON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Teen  YA 324.623 CONKLING    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Young Adult  YA 324.623 CON    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Children  Tween 364.623 CON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Teen  YA 324.623 CONKLING    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275, 280-303) and index.
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 -- In her own words : key primary sources.
Summary 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.
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Suffragists -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Suffragists -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Girls & Women.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- United States -- History -- 19th Century.
Suffragists. (OCoLC)fst01137197
Women -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst01176996
Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
Suffragists -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Young adult nonfiction.
Added Title American suffragists and the battle for the ballot
ISBN 9781616207342 (hardcover)
1616207345 (hardcover)
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