suffrage

Photographs and easy-to-follow text profile the events surrounding the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, in which, based on the rights granted by the seventeenth amendment, African-Americans demanded their right to vote.

Dramatizes the story of activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns who played pivotal roles in the fight to win voting rights for women.

Primary source materials help chronicle the fight for women's voting rights, profiling key figures in the battle and highlighting important events and milestones in women's struggle to gain equal voting rights in the United States.

An impulsive prank leaves an English schoolgirl in possession of a box of personal effects belonging to a now-dead suffragette, whose diary fills her mind and her dreams with vivid scenes of the struggle for women's voting rights in England in 1909.

THe women's suffrage movement is traced from the inflammatory convention in 1848 through the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.

Describes the opposing viewpoints of women's suffragists and anti-suffragists in the United States beginning in the mid-19th century.

Examines the role of women in the American frontier and their fight for suffrage, discussing the issues, events, and people involved. Includes photographs, fact boxes, a chronology, a glossary, and further resources.

An overview of the militant suffragists' fight for the right to vote. Includes biographical sketches and historic background of people and events that have shaped American women's history.

A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman suffrage movement.