BondGirl Books to Read Votes for Women
In celebration of the upcoming centennial of women's voting rights, the club will discuss Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
D.C., Wash.: BondGirl Books will hold its summer book club on July 10 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. In celebration of the upcoming centennial of women's voting rights, the club will discuss Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling.
"Votes for Women is an engaging and inspiring history of the women's voting rights movement," said BondGirl Books co-founder Dee Dee Bass Wilbon. "As we celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage, every woman in America should read this book to get a deeper appreciation for the true struggle in gaining access to the ballot box."
To participate in the book club, rsvp to [email protected].
In addition to joining the book club conversation, BondGirl Books recommends the following organizations to learn more about the history of women's suffrage in the U.S.
• In 2017, Congress created the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission to commemorate and coordinate the nation's year-long events around women's voting rights in the U.S. The organization's website http://www.womensvote100.org includes information on events happening in each state.
• The National Portrait Gallery's Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence outlines the more than 80-year movement for women to obtain the right to vote as part of the larger struggle for equality that continued through the 1965 Civil Rights Act and arguably lingers today.
• The Library of Congress' Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote, tells the story of the long campaign for women's suffrage – considered the largest reform movement in American history – which lasted more than seven decades. The struggle was not for the fainthearted. For years, determined women organized, lobbied, paraded, petitioned, lectured, picketed and faced imprisonment.
About BondGirl Books:
BondGirl Books is a community of readers who meet online and in real life to share the love of reading. A BondGirl believes that smart is sexy. The name BondGirl comes from Hannah Bond the first known fugitive slave woman to write a novel. The Bondwoman's Narrative written under the pen name Hannah Crafts is based on her brave escape to freedom.
