Book
The vote : women's fierce fight
Publication Information
Englewood, NJ : PGM Press, 2019.
Physical Description
435 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
The Vote: Women's Fierce Fight, by award-winning author Penny Colman tells the gripping story of the battle for woman suffrage in America through first-hand accounts, newspaper headlines and articles, anecdotes, songs, poems, documents, cartoons, and phtographs. Colman interweaves contested issues involving race, class, strategies, tactics, and politics. Replete with political intrigues and betrayals; pageantry and parades; pickets, violent mobs and forced-feeding, The Vote is infused with women's words and vivid personalities spanning many generations. A thought-provoking true story, The Vote resonates with key current issues including voting rights and women's participation in the goverance of America.