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![]() ![]() Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention to Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president to Sojourner Truth and her famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" to Alice Paul, who was arrested and force-fed in prison, Conkling combines thorough research with gripping storytelling to bring the battle for the right to vote to vivid life. In this expansive yet personal volume, author Winifred Conkling covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions.įrom Susan B. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. ![]()
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