VOTES FOR WOMEN The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Ammendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. In celebration of this milestone of democracy, we’ve curated this digital display consisting of books and movies available at the Elyria Public Library System. If you would like to place a hold on one of these items, call your preferred Elyria Public Library branch or click on the item’s cover to be directed to the online catalog where you can order the item right from your computer or mobile device. The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennes- see, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the ‘Antis’--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel’s, and the Bible. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cody Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton’s progress toward personal and political independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author’s words, an “unabashedly ‘great woman’ biography.”
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VOTES FOR WOMENThe year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Ammendment,
guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. In celebration of this
milestone of democracy, we’ve curated this digital display consisting of books and
movies available at the Elyria Public Library System.
If you would like to place a hold on one of these items, call your preferred Elyria Public
Library branch or click on the item’s cover to be directed to the online catalog where you
can order the item right from your computer or mobile device.
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by Elaine F. Weiss
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve
have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennes-
see, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing
forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and
a lot of racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the ‘Antis’--women
who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse
of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with
dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel’s, and the Bible.
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cody Stanton
by Elisabeth Griffith
The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman
suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of
role models and female friendships in Stanton’s progress toward personal and political
independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author’s words,