Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens is a classic. The book features suffrage leader Alice Paul, the Woman’s Party, and the days, months and years leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens is a classic. The book features suffrage leader Alice Paul, the Woman’s Party, and the days, months and years leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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One of these days the women’s suffrage movement will take its place alongside other civil rights struggles. The movement certainly qualifies. It took 72 years, for heavens sake.
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