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Nineteenth Amendment 2018 American Library Association Carnegie Whitney Grant Bibliography

This guide features the 2018 Carnegie Whitney Award Winner project by Dr. Marilyn Harhai and Dr. Janice Krueger.

Titles for High School

Barber, L. (2017). Champions for women's rights: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone. New York, NY: Enslow Publishing.

This title profiles a group of notable women who diligently worked for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is part of the Heroes of the Women's Suffrage Movement series. High school students will benefit from the profiles of these courageous women.

Conkling, W. (2018). Votes for women! American suffragists and the battle for the ballot. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Young Readers.        

Conkling gives high school students an engaging account of the women's suffrage movement. The personal and public struggles of key players, such as Stanton, Anthony, and Truth, are retold in context of the overall political climate of the period. It is a well-researched account of an important time in U. S. history and received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly.  

Harris, D., & Cornell, K. A. (2018). Right to vote. Minneapolis, MN: Essential Press.

This title focuses on the right to vote for all in the United States. The topic is discussed through examples and is placed in the historical context of women's suffrage and civil rights. This illustrated work for senior high school students is part of the American Values and Freedoms series.

Neuman, J. (2020). And yet they persisted: How American women won the right to vote. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. 

The author engages students with a popularly written style explaining the achievements, the trials, and the opposition experienced by those working for the movement. This vivid account helps students understand the suffragette experiences. This title could serve a text or reference work for high school students