catt, carrie chapman

"Jasmine Stirling, author of A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, delivers a powerful, poetic picture book biography perfect for fans of I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark and the Rebel Girls series. As a child, Carrie Chapman Catt asked a lot of questions: How many stars are in the sky? Do germs have personalities? And why can't Mama vote? Catt's curiosity led her to college, to a career in journalism, and finally to becoming the president of National American Woman Suffrage Association. Catt knew the movement needed a change-and she set to work mobilizing women (and men) across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote. On August 18, 1920, Catt pinned a yellow rose to her dress and waited while lawmakers in Tennessee cast their deciding votes to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. After a seventy-year campaign, had they finally won? Stirling's suspenseful retelling of the dramatic final "yea" that changed history brings the past to life for young readers"--.

Profiles five women who advocated on behalf of women's rights in the early twentieth century. Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaigned for women's rights, Susan B. Anthony voted despite the fact that it was illegal for women, Clementina Black organized a strike at a factory that paid women less than men, Carrie Chapman Catt traveled throughout the world to promote women's suffrage, and Emmeline Pankhurst petitioned for women's right to vote.

Profiles Carrie Chapman Catt, an educator, prohibitionist, and women's rights advocate who was instrumental in the passage of the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Presents a biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the woman's movement to obtain the right to vote, and provides information on her childhood, her fight against the male establishment, and her achievement in helping pass the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.