Suggested Reading List: 100 Years Honoring Suffrage & Women's Rights

Non-Fiction

The grounding of modern feminism by Nancy F. Cott 

Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden

All Bound up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1990 by Martha S. Jones 

No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship by Linda K. Kerber 

Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar 

The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement 1890-1920 by Aileen S. Kraditor 

The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: a Reassessment by Corrine M. McConnaughy

How the Vote was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914 by Rebecca J. Mead 

Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 by Allison L. Sneider

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn 

The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 by Lisa Terault 

The Woman’s Hour: The Last Furious Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss 

Understanding How Women Vote: Gender Identity and Political Choices by Kelly L. Winfrey 

Art History

Cartooning for Suffrage by Alice Sheppard

Fiction

Daughters of a Nation: a Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology by Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, Kianna Alexander, and Piper Huguley

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Impossible Saints by Clarissa Harwood

Children & Young Adult

How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony Inspired by Historical Facts by Nikki Grimes

A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen by Kathryn Kasky

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth be Told by Walter Dean Myers

My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth by Ann Turner

Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter 

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