The Day the Women Got the Vote: A Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement - Softcover

Sullivan, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590475606 ISBN 13: 9780590475600

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994

Synopsis

Traces the history of women's rights in the United States, both before and after the achievement of the vote

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Grade 4-9-A remarkable photographic record of the women's movement from Seneca Falls to the present. Engaging black-and-white photographs and reproductions present a wide range of women through portraits of well-known individuals and informal shots of unknowns. The history of the 19th amendment, the role of the suffragists and abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic, and the subsequent struggle for equal rights, including the defeat of the ERA, are described in the straightforward text that accompanies the visual documentation. Lillie Hitchcock Coit, one of the early female firefighters in this country, is shown wearing her firefighter's hat like an elegant piece of millinery in her 1864 portrait. Later photos depict Gloria Steinem, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Carol Moseley Braun. A refreshing change from more scholarly treatments of the topic, and yet informative enough to warrant a second flip through.
Ruth K. MacDonald, Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Gr. 5-9. The black-and-white pictures will draw browsers, but the writing is dull in this general history of the struggle for women's rights. Beginning with the early suffragists, Sullivan tells the story in a series of 24 short photo-essays on subjects including "Anti-slavery Women," "Dress Reform," "Women at War," and "Fighting for Civil Rights." He shows that the struggle for equality involved much more than the right to vote, and he devotes several chapters to the new feminism and the women's movement that started in the 1960s. There are occasional sloppy errors ("sufferage"); there's no documentation, even for direct quotes; and the further-reading list is woefully inadequate. However, the detailed chronology will be a quick-reference source, and the book design is attractive, with large, clear type and a magazine format. It's the photos that hold you, from Lewis Hines' image of a 12-year-old factory worker to the portrait of Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut. Hazel Rochman

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590475606
• ISBN 13: 9780590475600
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96