suffrage

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.

Traces the development of the feminist movement from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, discussing such topics as women and the vote, men's rights, and power feminism.

Twelve-year-old Frank witnesses his mother's struggles to muster support for women's right to vote even as the family's life is transformed by a year running a lodge in western Massachusetts in the early 1920s.

This book traces the history of the women's movement from the 1848 regional U.S. women's conference, the Seneca Falls Convention to the signing of legislation in 2010 by President Barack Obama making it easier for women to fight wage inequities in the workplace.

A portrait of largely forgotten civil rights workers who forged racial change despite violence and murder.

Susan, eleven years old in 1914, encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement in New York City.

When her grandfather registers to vote while living in segregated Mississippi, an Afro-American girl begins to understand why he insists that she attend school.