To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.”

“The history of mankind is a history of injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. Richie’s Picks: ROSES AND RADICALS: THE EPIC STORY OF HOW AMERICAN WOMEN WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE by Susan Zimet, Viking, January 2018, 168p., ISBN: 978-4-5 This is a great book for everyone but is well written for high schoolers. But it’s useful and interesting history and the tactics of the many women who worked for this important cause. I also didn’t realize the conflict that was had with the minority suffrage movement following the Civil War, the delay caused by WWI or the fact that the Equal Rights Amendment has yet to be ratified for the federal constitution (as of 2017, 36 states do have such amendments in their own constitutions see. Anthony Amendment”) was ratified, but I didn’t realize it was a 72 year battle and that it took 40 years to actually go to the floor for a vote in Congress. I’ve always known when the amendment (the “Susan B. There is so much I didn’t know about the movement. But on the other hand, wow, it hasn’t even been 100 years. Overall, this book is a perfect introduction to the women’s suffrage movement that doesn’t sugar coat the truth.Īs we get closer to the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020 I have to stop and think: Wow! On one hand, it’s been almost 100 years since women won the right to vote. Everything was explained in kid friendly language, so this book is perfect for the intended age group. This book is middle-grade (the recommended age is 10 and up) and I think it did a great job describing the history of the suffrage movement in an easy-to-follow way.

I found these to be incredibly insightful and helpful in explaining the movement. Sprinkled throughout the book are little sidebars with biographies of key women and other facts pertaining to the movement. Stanton, one of the true heroes of this story, was deeply flawed and sadly wrong when it came to matters of race” (63-64). The author writes, “To justify her racism as simply ‘commonplace’ for her time ignores the fact that there was nothing commonplace about her at all. What I loved about this book was that it did not shy away from discussing Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s racism nor did it try to justify it. I had read Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis when I was in college and that book went into great detail about the complexity of the movement. Prior to reading this book I knew quite a bit about the suffrage movement in the US. I received this book for free from the publisher (Viking Children’s Books) in exchange for an honest review.

Roses and Radicals by Susan Zimet