On August 18, 1920, women in the United States secured their right to
vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Their fight for suffrage took decades of campaigning and marching,
protesting and picketing, speeches and imprisonments. Millions of women
across the country gave their all to achieve victory. From Lucretia
Mott, who stoked the first flames of the suffrage movement in the 1800s,
to Alice Paul, the militant twentieth-century suffragist who helped
clinch ratification, Women Win the Vote! maps the road to the
Nineteenth Amendment through the lives of nineteen of these fierce and
courageous women who paved the way. With vivid profiles of iconic
figures like Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as
those who may be less well-known, like Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Adelina
Otero-Warren, this vibrant collection celebrates the one hundredth
anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and the daring individuals who
upended tradition to empower future generations of women.