(Pobierz) Mobi Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the
Battle for the Ballot
By Winifred Conkling
The story of the tenacious?American women who demanded,?fought for?and finally
won?their right to vote; paving the way for generations of civil rights activists. 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?for more than
eight decades. ? 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 ?Ain?t I a Woman?? speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in
prison, this is the story of the American women?s suffrage movement and the private
lives that fueled its leaders? dedication. Votes for Women! explores suffragists? often
powerful, sometimes difficult relationship with the intersecting temperance and
abolition campaigns,
