Victory for the Vote

Centennial commemorations have begun both nationally and locally and will continue through 2020. These resources, a few of many, give a sense of the extent of the programming: This gazette, “How Women Won the Vote,” published by the National Women’s History Alliance, is a round-up of early planning for the centennial. “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote” exhibit, National Archives, through January 3, 2021.  “Shall Not Be Denied: Women’s Fight for the Vote” exhibit, Library of Congress, through September 19, 2020.  “Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts,” featuring a host of programs and events through 2020. “Vision 2020: National Women’s Equality Initiative,” Drexel University/Pennsylvania, timeline of events. An alliance with the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA)—itself 100 years old in 2017—has been established to spread the word to women influencers in the book world. The WNBA will promote the book to its community, including close to 1,000 members in eleven chapters across the country, over double that amount in newsletter and blog lists, and more than 20,000 visitors to its website and that of National Reading Group Month (NRGM), an initiative the organization owns. Dedicated ads, interviews, and articles about the book will be run across all of the WNBA’s and NRGM platforms. Additionally, the WNBA is in talks with the Little Free Library to celebrate the 2020 Suffrage Centennial in a variety of ways, one of which centers around the possibility of donating Victory for the Vote to key members of the Little Free Library community.

Women’s history expert Doris Weatherford’s Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed offers readers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women’s seven-decade fight for the vote and will bring those readers up to date on key achievements—and challenges—in women’s equality since then.Women’s Suffrage and the Continuing Fight for Women’s Rights

“Weatherford’s book traces the philosophical roots of the Seneca Falls convention to the 17th century and women who defied the dominant religious leadership in the nascent American colonies.” ―Publishers Weekly 

2020 Winner Sarton Women's Literary Award for Nonfiction

An inspirational women’s rights gift. In her book Victory for the Vote, women’s history expert Doris Weatherford offers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women’s seven-decade fight for the vote, and the continuing current-day struggle for human rights and equality.

Foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Victory for the Vote puts the fight for women’s suffrage into contemporary context by discussing key challenges for women in the decades that followed 1920, such as reproductive rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and political power.

Celebrate the centennial of women’s right to vote in the U.S. Victory for the Vote is an expansion and update of Doris Weatherford’s A History of the American Suffragist Movement, published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, considered to be the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States.

Read Doris Weatherford’s Victory for the Vote and:

• Take pride in the struggles and accomplishments of strong women
• Understand and appreciate the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment
• Celebrate Women’s History Month, feminism, and recognize the challenges that still remain on the road to human rights for all
  

If you enjoyed books such as And Yet They Persisted, Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, The Woman’s Hour, Rad Women Worldwide, Warriors Don’t Cry, or The Book of Awesome Women; you will want to read and be inspired by Victory for the Vote.