Women's History Month 2020: Suffrage and Resources

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For today's post here's a short  bibliography of suffrage books that you may find helpful as you place your ancestor in time.

Cassidy, Tina. Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote. United States, Simon & Schuster, 2019.

DuBois, Ellen C. Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 

DuBois, Ellen C. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019

Foner, Philip S.. Women and the American Labor Movement. United States, Haymarket Books, 2018.

Free, Laura E.. Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era. United States: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Gordon, Ann D, and Bettye Collier-Thomas. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 

MacConnaughy, Corrine M. The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Prtess, 2015. 

Spruill, Marjorie J. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995.

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Tyrrell, Ian. Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930. United States, University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire that Changed America. United States, Grove Press, 2004.