![]() ![]() Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen. The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. ![]() Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Book excerpt: The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. With Hasak-Lowy, Zimet, a founding member of Votes for Women 2020, an organization dedicated to, in part, celebrating the 100th anniversary of American women’s right to vote, explores the decadeslong battle for suffrage and its many leaders. Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet, Todd Hasak-Lowy 5.0 Hardcover 19.99 Hardcover 19.99 Paperback 9.99 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Premium Members save an additional 10 and earn stamps to save even more. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. by Susan Zimet & Todd Hasak-Lowy RELEASE DATE: Jan. ![]() Book Synopsis Roses and Radicals by : Susan Zimetĭownload or read book Roses and Radicals written by Susan Zimet and published by Penguin. ![]()
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