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Women's Equality Day

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Today is Women's Equality Day in the United States. We celebrate this day to remember when the Nineteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1920 to make it possible for American women to vote! This was an important step towards equality and many women fought long and hard for this change. Below is a list of books about some of those incredible women and what they went through.


By Veronica Chambers 
Boston: Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. Informational.

Read the untold stories of many of the women from more diverse backgrounds including those from Black, Asian, Latinx, Native American and more who found for the right for women to vote. 


By Kate Messner
New York : Random House Children's Books, 2020. Informational.

This book works to debunk the myths that surround the history of women's right in the United States. Using illustrations, graphic panels, photographs, and more, Kate Messner works to tell the true stories of those who fought for women's suffrage.


By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020. Informational. 

History in this book is told through not only words, but dozens of photos and illustrations. Each page includes images that add so much to the telling of the little-known story of the DC Women's March of 1913. 


By Deborah Diesen
New York : Beach Lane Books, 2020. Informational.

Perfect for younger readers, this picture book looks at how voting rights have evolved over the years in America. It includes the powerful quote, "A right isn't right till it's granted to all...". It goes over how far we have come and what still needs to be done.

New York : Viking, 2020. Informational.

This tells the extraordinary and underrepresented history of African American women and the struggles that they had to go through to receive suffrage as well. Many times, fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the fight, which made it even more difficult. This is the battle they fought for both civil rights and suffrage.


Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment
By Nancy B. Kennedy
New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. Informational.

Read the stories of nineteen women who helped paved the way for the changes made in the Nineteenth Amendment. These biographies include women from all backgrounds such as, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, and Mary Ann Shadd Cary.


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