This Week at J-MRL:

Votes for Women!

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 online catalog.

For online resources about the suffragists, check out the Biography Resource Center.

Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a Ken Burns documentary about two of the women who fought for full citizenship for women.

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