Explore books, films, and documentaries on women’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment for adults and kids from the League of Women Voters of Metro Des Moines. BOOKS & MEDIA Adult and Children’s Books, Films and Documentary (circa 1920; women’s right to vote) ADULT BOOKS CHILDREN BOOKS Michael Burgan, The 19th Amendment: We The People-Modern America Carrie Chapman Catt, Woman Suffrage and Politics Eleanor Clift, Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment Penny Colman, The Vote: Women’s Fierce Fight Winifred Conkling, Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot Robert Cooney, Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Women Suffrage Movement Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States Aileen Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920 Brooke Kroeger, The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote Judy Monroe, The Nineteenth Amendment: Women’s Right to Vote Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham and Martha Prescod Norman (editors), African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Suffragists in Washington, DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Six volumes: 1881-1922 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 Sally Roesch Wagner, Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists Sally Roesch Wagner, The Women’s Suffrage Movement Mary Walton, A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot Elaine Weiss, The Women’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote Children’s Books, ages 4-8: Claire Rudolf Murphy, Marching With Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage; illustrated by Stacey Schuett Tanya Lee Stone, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote; illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon Children’s Books, ages 5-9: Ann Malaspina, Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President; illustrated by Steve James Mara Rockliff, Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, A Kitten and 10,000 Miles; illustrated by Hadley Hooper Linda Arms White, I Could do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote; illustrated by Nancy Carpenter Dean Robbins, Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women’s Right to Vote Children’s Books, ages 5-10: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman’s Race for the Presidency; illustrated by Courtney Autumn Martin Children’s Books, ages 6-9: Walter Dean Myers, Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth be Told; illustrated by Bonnie Christensen Doreen Rappaport, Elizabeth Started All the Trouble; illustrated by Matt Faulkner Children’s Books, ages 6-10: Kirsten Gillibrand, Bold and Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote; illustrated by Maira Kalman Children’s Books, ages 7-10: Nikki Grimes, Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historic Facts; illustrated by Michele Wood Children’s Books, ages 8-12: Deborah Hopkinson, What is the Women’s Rights Movement?; illustrated by Laurie A. Conley Pamela D. Pollack and Meg Belviso, Who Was Susan B. Anthony?; illustrated by Mike Lacey Anne Kamma, If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights Children’s Books, ages 8-14: Ilene Cooper, A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers and Changed the Country; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley Children’s Books, ages 9 and up: Kerrie Logan Hollihan, Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote Children’s Books, ages 10 and up: Ann Bausum, With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote Deborah Kops, Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights Susan Zimet and Todd Hawak-Lowy, Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote Children’s Books, ages 10-14: Sue Macy, Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) Children’s Books, ages 12 and up: Penny Colman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World Children’s Books, ages 13 and up: Winifred Conkling, Votes for Women!: American Suffragist and the Battle for the Ballot; this book is also listed in the “Adult Book” category Children’s Books, ages 14 and up: Jules Archer, The Feminist Revolution: A Story of the Three Most Inspiring and Empowering Women in American History: Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger and Betty Friedan MEDIA Children’s Documentary, ages 9 and up: Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Master documentary filmmaker Ken Burns created this film in 1999 using stunning black-and-white archival footage that shows both the excitement and the challenges civil rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony faced almost a century ago. Actors Ann Dowd, Sally Kellerman, Julie Harris and Amy Madigan provide commentary. Children’s Film, ages 10 and up: PBS Home Video: One Woman, One Vote Adult and Children’s (age 13 and up) Film: Suffragette (2015) This stirring film shows the painful struggle of British women as they fight to get the right to vote two years before American women. Many activists were fired from their jobs, learned jujitsu to protect themselves, were even thrown in jail and force-fed through their nose if they went on hunger strikes. The movie stars Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter with Meryl Streep as real-life civil rights leader Emmeline Pankhurst. Iron Jawed Angels: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way (2004) With modern music and dazzling cinematography, this film stars Hilary Swank as Alice Paul, the real-life suffragette and women’s rights activist who was one of the main leaders in pushing for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that would allow American women to vote. Margo Martindale, Vera Farmiga and Anjelica Huston also star. N-O-T-E: due to a harsh, though realistic, force-feeding scene, the film is recommended for teen and adult viewers What really happened: Votes for women (about women’s suffrage in New Zealand) The Divine Order (about women’s suffrage in Switzerland) On a day that marks 100 years since women got the right to vote here in the UK, it is worth being reminded that for many countries such results came much later. The Divine Order takes as its subject matter the suffrage movement in Switzerland, where women got the right to vote in 1971 – more than 50 years after the equivalent right had passed in the UK. Unlike Suffragette, this film takes a lighter, feel-good approach to the suffrage story. The film catapults its protagonist Nora (played by Marie Leuenberger) from quiet and dutiful housewife to leader of the town’s suffragette movement, picking up various characters – including a feisty old widow and an Italian restaurant owner – along the way. Unafraid to add humour, the film is both amusing and inspiring. A reminder that the most powerful and significant political movements are often underscored by everyday, local and individual acts of rebellion https://umich.kanopy.com/video/divine-order https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+divine+order Shoulder to Shoulder (1974) A ground-breaking BBC television series about the history of suffrage through key personalities – such as the Pankhursts. It traumatized a generation with its graphic detail of the horrors of the forced feeding of hunger strikers in British prisons. The Annie Kenney episode follows the career of the former mill girl who started work at the age of 10 and was the only working class woman to become a leader of the Votes for Women movement.

Explore the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Des Moines’ featured documentary on the history, impact, and future of women’s political power and civic engagement, presented with partner organizations to highlight the ongoing fight for democracy and voter participation. PARTNERSHIPS Catt Center for Women in Politics - ISU The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics was founded in 1992 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University at Iowa State University to interest, educate, and engage citizens in the political process. The center’s programs blend the resources and scholarship of the academic environment with the experiences of practitioners in fields important to the political process. READY TO RUN PROGRAM Ready to Run Iowa is a nonpartisan campaign training program to encourage women to run for elective office, position themselves for appointive office, work on a campaign or become involved in public life as leaders in their communities. MORE INFO 19th AMENDMENT HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM Designed for grades 9-12, the lessons are aligned with Iowa’s Social Studies Standards and allow for flexibility with consideration for a variety of classes. Lessons can be presented individually or as part of an ongoing unit. MORE INFO ERA HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM This research-based curriculum for high school students is free for use by any school district. It includes five lessons discussing the history and debates surrounding the ERA from the 1920s to the present, including a lesson on the debate in Iowa over the federal amendment and efforts to amend the state constitution. MORE INFO Implementation of Women in the NAACP (“WIN”) as a Standing Committee WIN - Women in the NAACP – meetings on 2nd Tues/month via zoom 6:30 pm NAACP – meetings on 4th Tues/month via zoom 6 pm MORE INFO A feature length documentary film exploring the past, present and future of women’s political power through the lens of the 100-year history of the League of Women Voters (LWV) and allied groups. In 1920, winning the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution was just the beginning for women as agents of political power. These are the hidden stories of what came next and what’s at stake today. MORE INFO The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is proud to join the League of Women Voters of the United States and fellow women-led organizations as part of the Grassroots Power Partners initiative, a key component of the League’s Unite and Rise 8.5 campaign. Together, these partners are mobilizing women and communities across the country to expand civic participation, foster equity, and build a stronger, more inclusive democracy. MORE INFO In the chaos of today’s political arena, Interfaith Alliance of Iowa is the only statewide, non-partisan, progressive voice for people of faith and no faith protecting religious freedom, safeguarding the line between religion and government, ensuring religion is not misused to discriminate, championing individual rights, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism. We are a balancing voice for fairness, justice, and civility. MORE INFO Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee (CJCC) Polk County Behavioral Health Committee Organizations interested in hosting a harm reduction vending machine offering free and judgment-free access to health and safety tools? contact gabbie.ruggiero@polkcountyiowa.gov

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