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August 18, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. See how the 70-year-long fight for women's suffrage was hard won by leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt and others. Learn how their success led into the civil rights and feminist movements of the mid- and late twentieth century, as well as today's #MeToo, #YesAllWomen, and Black Lives Matter movements. In the face of voter ID laws, voter purges, gerrymandering, and other restrictions, Americans continue to fight for equality in voting rights.
About the Author
Coral Celeste Frazer has a passion for accumulating information, processing it, sorting it, and using it to construct a compelling story or argument. She especially loves writing nonfiction for young people about social justice issues. She has written about economic inequality, its causes and effects, as well as the history of the woman suffrage movement. She is awed by the bravery and dedication of the women and men who have fought for the rights of marginalized people throughout history, and hopes that her books might help inspire some young people to fight for their own vision of a better world. Coral was born and raised in Montrose, Colorado and is still a mountain girl at heart. But she also loved living in Boston, Massachusetts (or more specifically Somerville) and Portland, Oregon. She currently resides in lovely Norwich, England, a city proud of its reputation for having a pub for every day of the year and a church for every Sunday. Today some of its dozens of medieval churches have been transformed into antique shops, museums, and circus schools.
