Penny Colman
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Women's fierce fight for the right to vote is one of the truly great, but overlooked, stories in American history. Generations of women from well-known Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul and little-known Elizabeth Piper Ensley, Maud Malone, Hazel Hunkins, and Betty Gram-devoted their lives to the momentous struggle.
The Vote: Women's Fierce Fight for Equal Suffrage is the gripping account of the hard-won victory,...
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Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship that changed history.
In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York-Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each...