Roses and Radicals

The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.

And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin.

The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot.
The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. 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.

I Never Learned This in School

Amazing story, nobody ever told me Susan B. Anthony was such a bada$$. Now I know why they wanted to put her on our dollar coin. This book doesn't pull any punches either. It's crazy how Tennessee of all places was the 36th state to ratify the right for women to vote. And in Tennessee it all came down to one guy whose mom told him to vote to pass the law. So it basically all came down to one mom somewhere. Why is this not taught in schools?

Captivating history that all woman should read!

I wanted to learn more about the sacrifices made of the woman who came before me to give me the right to vote. This was beautifully written and narrated. I highly recommend it for every American interested in our precious freedom to vote. This, especially at a time when our country has experienced voter suppression among some minority voters.