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Remember the Ladies
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box | Angela P. Dodson
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2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that hard won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since. From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote, drawing on historic research, biographies of leaders, and such original sources as photos, line art, charts, graphs, documents, posters, ads, and buttons. It presents this often-forgotten struggle in an accessible, conversational, relevant manner for a wide audience. Here are the groundbreaking convention records, speeches, newspaper accounts, letters, photos, and drawings of those who fought for women's right to vote, all in their own words, arranged to convey the inherent historical drama. The accessible almanac style allows this entertaining history speak for itself. It is full of little-known facts. For instance: When the Constitutional Convention of the thirteen colonies convened to draft the Constitution, Abigail Adams admonished her husband John Adams to "remember the ladies" (write rights for women into the Constitution!). Important for today's discussions, REMEMBER THE LADIES does not extract women's suffrage from the inseparable concurrent historic endeavors for emancipation, immigration, and temperance. Its robust research documents the intersectionality of women's struggle for the vote in its true context with other progressive efforts.
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Scochrane26
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I finished this last night. Between reading this & RBG‘s death, I‘ve had a lot of emotions. I learned so much that I didn‘t know about the suffrage movement. It‘s both frustrating because of the many, many years women had to fight but also inspiring that these women persevered until they reached the goal, then came up with new goals & kept fighting, training new leaders along the way to take over. Chapters are very short & can be choppy at times.

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Scochrane26
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I‘m really enjoying this book and am surprised that there‘s only one other post about it on litsy. The author is African-American, and it has great pictures to add to the history. This one is 7 of the women who paved the way for us.
“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.” -Lucretia Mott

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🎧 This year was the 100th anniversary of women‘s suffrage. This book introduces us to the women who fought for equal voting rights. It‘s also one of 2017‘s best audiobooks in biography & history

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