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Women's history expert Doris Weatherford's
Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed offers readers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women's seven-decade fight for the vote and will bring those readers up to date on key achievements-and challenges-in women's equality since then.
About the author
Doris Weatherford is affiliated with the University of South Florida, is active in the political arena, and has been extensively recognized for her contributions to the field of women’s history. She was editor-in-chief and major contributor to the monumental reference work, A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference (Grolier Academic Reference, 2004), which offers detailed and engaging histories of women in each of the fifty states. Her other publications include Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1920 (1986), American Women’s History: An A―Z of People, Organizations, Issues and Events (1994), Milestones: A Chronology of American Women’s History (1997), American Women during World War II (Routledge, 2009), and a two-volume work for Congressional Quarterly Press, Women in American Politics: History and Milestones (2012).
Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. Now in her third term as Speaker, Pelosi made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency, the first person to do so in more than 60 years. As Speaker, Pelosi is fighting For The People, working to lower health care costs, increase workers’ pay through strong economic growth and rebuilding America, and clean up corruption for make Washington work for all.
Summary
Women’s history expert Doris Weatherford’s Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed offers readers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women’s seven-decade fight for the vote and will bring those readers up to date on key achievements—and challenges—in women’s equality since then.
Foreword
Centennial commemorations have begun both nationally and locally and will continue through 2020. These resources, a few of many, give a sense of the extent of the programming:
- This gazette, “How Women Won the Vote,” published by the National Women’s History Alliance, is a round-up of early planning for the centennial.
- “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote” exhibit, National Archives, through January 3, 2021.
- “Shall Not Be Denied: Women’s Fight for the Vote” exhibit, Library of Congress, through September 19, 2020.
- “Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts,” featuring a host of programs and events through 2020.
- “Vision 2020: National Women’s Equality Initiative,” Drexel University/Pennsylvania, timeline of events.
An alliance with the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA)—itself 100 years old in 2017—has been established to spread the word to women influencers in the book world. The WNBA will promote the book to its community, including close to 1,000 members in eleven chapters across the country, over double that amount in newsletter and blog lists, and more than 20,000 visitors to its website and that of National Reading Group Month (NRGM), an initiative the organization owns. Dedicated ads, interviews, and articles about the book will be run across all of the WNBA’s and NRGM platforms. Additionally, the WNBA is in talks with the Little Free Library to celebrate the 2020 Suffrage Centennial in a variety of ways, one of which centers around the possibility of donating
Victory for the Vote to key members of the Little Free Library community.
