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Books Movies & Music Staff Recommend... Nonfiction 90th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote
Books Movies & Music Staff Recommend... Nonfiction 90th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote
| 24 Aug 2010 |
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 On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was adopted, granting women the right to vote. Women had organized and fought for this right for over 70 years, a history that has often been overlooked. Thanks to women like Electra C. Doren, director of the Dayton Public Library during this time, our library developed one of the best suffrage collections in the United States. Newspaper clippings, pamphlets, minutes from meetings and personal correspondence are all available in our Local History room. Using these materials and other primary sources, Doramae O'Kelley wrote Courageous Optimism: Montgomery County, Ohio and the Pursuit of Votes for Women in 2003. The library has this and many other good books about the women's suffrage movement as well as two excellent DVDs: Iron Jawed Angels and Not for Ourselves Alone: the Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. Doris Stevens, author of Jailed for Freedom, was one of the women suffrage organizers depicted in Iron Jawed Angels and had worked for suffrage in Dayton before going to Washington DC as an organizer. So celebrate the 90th Anniversary of women's right to vote by learning about this movement that changed our nation and remember you can register to vote at any of our libraries (deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming election is October 4.) |