suffragists

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The vote

a novel
2006
In 1918 sheltered upper-class college graduate Kate Brennan is mistakenly arrested when she goes to the aid of suffragists being attacked at a rally. She becomes a passionate supporter of the National Woman's Party and works with leaders of the party, and puts her life on the line for the right to vote.

Women's Suffrage

1820 - 1990s
1998
A resource of student activities and background information that brings history to life through "eyewitness" accounts.

The cure for dreaming

2014
In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes timeline and historical photographs.

Eighty years and more

reminiscences, 1815-1897
1971

Susan B. Anthony

1995
Using a combination of live action, archival films and still photos presents a biography of Susan B. Anthony, the school teacher who fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Susan B. Anthony

2003
Uses dramatizations and historical photographs to examine the life of abolitionist and suffragist Susan B. Anthony, discussing her role in securing the vote for women.

Rose's story

a Cape Light novel
2005
In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.

Created equal

a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
1940

Miss Emily

Emily Howland, teacher of freed slaves, suffragist and friend of Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman. With excerpts from her diaries and letters
1998

Eighty years and more

reminiscences, 1815-1897
1993

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