Additional Resources

The resources listed below are a small sampling of what is available on the subject of women's suffrage and passage of the 19th Amendment.

WEBSITES

Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance: Led by the League of Women Voters of Vermont, its website is dedicated to supporting Vermont's involvement in the movement to obtain the right to vote and educate Vermonters on the role of various Vermont women in the passage of the 19th Amendment. Includes Vermont resources, timelines, and events.

Crusade for the Vote: Created by the National Women's History Museum, this site is dedicated to the national movement for passage of the 19th Amendment. It includes a history of the movement, educational resources as well as primary documents.

She Resisted: An interactive website produced by PBS American Experience to support their documentary The Vote on the 78-year process to obtain the 19th Amendment. This site includes an interactive map, basic outline of the movement, and strategies used by the suffrage movement to support the rights of women to vote.

2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative: Constructed as a curating site, it includes quizzes, educational activities, biographies, and bibliographies of various resources.

The Library of Congress: Votes for Women: Artifacts from the LOC collection including photographs, political cartoons, broadsides, and other ephemera dedicated to the suffrage movement.

Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the 19th Amendment: Curated by the Digital Public Library of America, it contains a primary source set of various postcards, flyers, and photographs of the suffrage campaign as well as teacher resources and discussion questions.

Vermont Women's History Database: Curated with collaboration between the Vermont Historical Society and Vermont Commission on Women, the database contains some of the Vermont women who participated in the Vermont Suffrage movement.

DOCUMENTARIES AND VIDEOS

American Experience: The Vote (2020): This video is the newest addition to the PBS series The American Experience narrated by Kate Burton and released by Boston PBS station WGBH. This four-hour documentary uses new research, videos, and primary documents to outline the women's suffrage movement. It also includes an interactive website entitled She Resisted; Strategies of Suffrage that enables students to study the many strategies used by women in the movement.

American Experience: One Woman, One Vote (1995): Released in 1995 by Boston PBS station WGBH and narrated by Susan Sarandon, this two-hour documentary is an earlier version of the new PBS documentary that gives an overview of the women's suffrage movement.

Iron Jawed Angels (2004): Created by HBO in 2004, this fictional film starring Hillary Swank as Alice Paul, Francis O'Connor as Lucy Burns, and Angelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt is a fast-paced film depicting the final years of the fight for suffrage. It illustrates the parades, picketing of the White House, and indignities of force-feeding and imprisonment of women suffragists.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Middle School

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan b. Antoney: A Friendship that Changed the World by Penny Colman: A glimpse into a powerful duo that united to improve women's lives, even when faced with scandals, betrayals, and backlash.

Women in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to Washington and Changed a Nation by Ilene Cooper, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley: From women's suffrage to the Pink Wave, this updated edition looks at women who have made important strides in the U.S. legislative branch.

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne: Dionne offers a long-overdue examination of the roles black women played in suffrage movements throughout history and in the present day.

Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Antony by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Michele Wood: An imagined conversation sets the scene and helps connect two historical movements for readers.

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights by Deborah Kops: Alice Paul's advocacy for women's rights continued long beyond the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Rebel Voices: The Global Fight for Women's Equality and the Right to Vote by Louise Kay Stewart, illustrated by Eve Lloyd Knight: Readers take a global journey to discover powerful women and their out-of-the-box strategies to fight for equality and the right to vote.

Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet and Todd Hasak-Lowy: Heroic actions and human failures informed the struggle for voting rights then and today.

High School

Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling: From Seneca Falls to ratification of the 19th Amendment, women marched, protested, and broke the law to achieve suffrage.

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois: Dubois examines a wide range of suffrage leaders and the other causes they championed.

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar: In addition to her work on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was a fierce suffragist and advocate for women's rights.

All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture. 1830-1900 by Martha S. Jones: For three generations of black activists, the battle for suffrage goes beyond the 19th Amendment.

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Miki Kendall, illustrated by A. D'Amico: This wide-sweeping look at women's movements across the globe is both celebratory of impact and frank about obstacles that remain.

Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence edited by Kate Clarke Lemay: Famous and unknown activists appear side by side in a thoughtfully woven together yet diverse collection of portraits, narratives, essays, photographs, and memorabilia.

Jailed for Freedom: A First-Person Account of the Militant Fight for Women's Rights by Doris Stevens: This memoir by a militant suffragist was first published in 1920 and has been updated with a new forward and archival illustrations.

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware: Meet a diverse group of nineteen lesser-known advocates whose grassroots activism made a significant impact.

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss: Political maneuvering, deals, and promises drove the final votes for women's suffrage as Tennessee became the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment.

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: A documentation of the various African American women who joined and participated in the Suffrage Movement despite racism from those within and outside the movement.

Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights by Diane Eickhoff: Her biography brings to life the forgotten story of a great American Reformer who focused on women's rights and slavery.

Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood by Marilyn S. Blackwell and Kristen T. Oertel: An in-depth look at Clarina Howard Nichols' involvement in social reform and western migration; specifically her work Vermont on behalf of women's rights as well as her move to Kansas to pursue her anti-slavery crusade.

VERMONT RESOURCES

Those Indomitable Vermont Women by Vermont State Division of the American Association of University Women and UVM Women's Center: A short biography of Vermont women including those who were part of the Vermont suffrage movement.

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women by Deborah Clifford: Celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.