August 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of women receiving the right to vote in the United States. The 19th Amendment was passed giving all white and black women the ability to be heard and to vote in the United States. To celebrate this landmark achievement, we have compiled this resource guide of materials that we have available at the library or are available online to give you further information on this important topic. All of these items are available by searching in the Evergreen Indiana catalog with your library card.
From Suffrage to the Senate: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes, and Issues
Suzanne O’Dea
Find it in Evergreen here.
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton
Jean Fritz
Find it in Evergreen here.
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Geoffrey Ward & Martha Saxton
Find it in Evergreen here.
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 miles
Mara Rockliff
Find it in Evergreen here.
And Yet the Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman
Check it out in Evergreen here
A Time for Courage: the Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen
Kathryn Lasky
Check it out in Evergreen here
Women: Our Story
Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Check it out in Evergreen here
Great websites to check out:
Women’s Suffrage Timeline
This a fabulous timeline provided by the National Women’s History Museum that chronicles that journey for women to have the right to vote in the United States.
Crusade for the Vote
This website also provided by the National Women’s History Museum provides great background information on the steps leading to the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. TEACHERS: there are lesson plans available for you from the NWHM provided here.
History.com
The History.com website provides a great introductory resource to information about the long battle for women being able to vote in the United States.
Rightfully Hers
The National Archives is celebrating the commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment using the hashtag #RightfullyHers and at this wonderful website
The Heritage Foundation
Check out this wonderful background video from the Heritage Foundation.
Annenberg Classroom
TEACHERS: This site provides some great resources for teaching information about the United States Constitution. It also has a great video background on the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States here.
Center for American Women and Politics
The CAWP at Rutger’s University has some excellent background information on the women’s suffrage movement at their website.
