Suffrage Books for Lower School: Books

An illustrated biography of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery and fought for the rights of African-Americans and women.

Introduction to the life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist who wrote about and spoke against the unfair treatment of African Americans.

A brief biography of the life and achievements of nineteenth-century women's rights activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who fought for a woman's right to vote.

Introduction to the life of Sojourner Truth, describing her childhood, life as a slave, freedom, and work as an activist for civil rights and women's right to vote.

Introduction to the life and accomplishments of Harriet Tubman.

Describes what life was like for girls before the women's rights movement; and tells about pioneering women including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Alice Paul and others.

A picture book that celebrates female social reformers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Sojourner Truth.

In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became the first woman to hold public office in the United States.

Text and illustrations look at Susan B. Anthony's arrest and trial for voting in the president election of 1872.

The story of suffragette Alice Paul and her campaign to win women the right to vote.

Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.

Profiles ten women from different times and fields of endeavor including Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton and others.

Moses, General Tubman, Minty, Araminta, the woman we know today as Harriet Tubman went by many names. Each represented one of her many roles as a spy, as a liberator, as a suffragist, and more.

Not allowed to go hiking with her father and brothers because she is a girl, Bessie learns about women's rights when she attends a suffrage rally led by Susan B. Anthony.

Introduction to the life of Latina activist Jovita Idar.

A collection of articles and photographs from "The Suffragist" that looks at the final campaign of suffragist Inez Milholland.

Mary Church Terrell, the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.

Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, and includes profiles of notable women in the struggle.

Stories of women activists: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Adams, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks

The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote, featuring Truth, Anthony, Wells-Barnett, Stanton, Paul, Burns and others.

In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.