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Contirbuted article
Published: August 21, 2008

August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the ratification of the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote across the United States. The struggle for women’s suffrage raged for 72 years, from Seneca Falls to the steps of the Capitol in 1920. The sisters of suffrage were the first political picketers in history at the White House and the last to back down from confrontation and even imprisonment.
For a personal look at the lives of these history-making women, use the Greene County Library’s online catalog jmrl.org/catalog to check out:
“Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”
“Created Equal: Women Campaign for the Right to Vote, 1840-1920”
“Victoria Woodhull: Free Spirit for Women’s Rights”
“Remember the Ladies: The First Women’s Rights Convention”
Let the Women Vote! [video-recording]
“Not for Ourselves Alone” [video-recording]: The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, directed by Ken Burns.
Biography Resource Center, the Library’s online database, is easily available from home jmrl.org/on-databases.htm and can give many reliable articles on these pioneering women who fought for women’s right to vote.
“American Memory - Historical Collections from the Library of Congress National Digital Library” is available on the Library’s Internet Links by Subject jmrl.org/on-links.htm and has books, pamphlets, photographs, scrapbooks-all sorts of archival material on Women’s History.
As always, the Greene County Library’s friendly staff is happy to help you find the information you want.