This picture book is a winner with my kid and her favorite on this list. I’ve tried to include as many diverse books as I could find in this list. I’m hoping for more diversity in children’s books about the movement in the future. Women’s Suffrage Movement paint the movement as white, which is very untrue. I’m disappointed that so far, most children’s books about the U.S. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, placed white women’s suffrage above that of women of color-particularly African American women-and were willing to use racist tactics to ensure white women won the right to vote. White women used the efforts and labor of abolitionists and Native American women to determine the most effective ways to protest, but almost all of the major white women in the movement, including Susan B. My children–and I hope yours too–will be learning about this movement before becoming adults.Īs a side note, the movement was rife with racism.
August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, and in celebration, I’ve compiled this list of 13 children’s books about the movement, including 3 books for young adult and middle grade readers. I was an adult before I learned much about it, despite living in Nashville, TN, where the 19th Amendment was ratified.
It was not discussed in elementary school, nor junior high or high school. Women’s Suffrage Movement until I was well into adulthood. I don’t remember reading any children’s books about the U.S.
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