19th Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment Learning Resources

Angel Zimmerman, Wyatt Carter


The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. 

Ratified: August 18, 1920




Books

A-G

Title Author
A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen Kathryn Lasky
A Very Dangerous Woman Sherry Penney and James D. Livingston
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft
A Voice of Our Own Nancy M. Neuman
A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910 Martha M. Solomon
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot Mary Walton
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists Katherine H. Adams
Alice Paul J. D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry
Alice Paul: Claiming Power J.D. Zahniser
America's Women Gail Collins
Angelia Grimke: Rhetoric, Identify and the Radical Imagination Stephen Howard Browne
Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896 Carol Cornwall Madsen
“Belonging to the World": Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture Sandra F. Vanburkleo
Before Equal Suffrage: Women in Partisan Politics from Colonial Times to 1920 Robert J. Dinkin
Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Century of Struggle Eleanor Flexner and Ellen Fitzpatrick
Created Equal: Women Campaign for the Right to Vote 1840-1920 Ann Rossi
Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology Kianna Alexander
Deeds Not Words Sandra Sider
Eighty Years and More Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emmeline Pankhurst Lisbeth Kaiser and Ana Sanfelippo
Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier
Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America Faye E. Dudden
Free Thinker Kimberly A. Hamlin
Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood Marilyn S. Blackwell and Kristen T. Oertel
Gilded Suffragists Johanna Neuman

H-S

Title Author
Half of the Human Race Anthony Quinn
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement Wendy L. Rouse
How the Vote Was Won Rebecca J. Mead
How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914 Rebecca J. Mead
Impossible Saints Clarissa Harwood
Impossible Saints: A Novel Clarissa Harwood
Jeannette Rankin James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski
Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience Norma Smith and Kathryn Anderson
Let Us Dream Alyssa Cole
Make More Noise!: New Stories in Honour of the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage Emma Carroll
Mama Went to Jail for the Vote Kathleen Karr
Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman's Party, 1913-1920 Belinda A. Sillion Southard
Miss Rivers And Miss Bridges Geraldine Symons
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? Tina Cassidy
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: A Scandalous History of Birds, Hats and Votes Tessa Boase
No Surrender by Constance Maud Constance Maud
No Votes for Women Susan Goodier
Old Baggage Lissa Evans
One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement Marhorie Spruill Wheeler
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull Barbara Goldsmith
Rebel Voices : The Rise of Votes for Women Louise K. Stewart
Revolutionary Hear: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights Diane Eickhoff
Rise up, Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes By Diane Atkinson
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot
Saving Savannah Tonya Bolden
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement Sally G. McMillen
Seven Days in May Kim Izzo

S-U

Title Author
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists Jean H. Baker
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Anita Anand
Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question Elna C. Green
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women Joyce Marlow
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women Ellen Carol DuBois
Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 Allison L. Sneider
The Cure for Dreaming Cat Winters
The Dressmaker Kate Alcott
The Girl with Spunk Judith St. George
The Hourglass Factory Lucy Ribchester
The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement/1890-1920 Aileen S. Kraditor
The Militant Suffragettes Antonia Raeburn
The Myth of Seneca Falls Lisa Tetrault
The Scarlet Sisters Myra Macpherson
The Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill Lepore
The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals Sylvia Pankhurst
The Suffragettes in Pictures by Diane Atkinson Diane Atkinson
The Woman Who Dared to Vote N. E. H. Hull
The Woman Who Ran For President Lois Beachy Underhill
The Woman's Bible Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote Elaine F. Weiss
Things a Bright Girl Can Do By Sally Nicholls
Things a Bright Girl Can Do Sally Nicholls
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History Lillian Faderman
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Adam Hochschild
Treacherous Texts Mary Chapman and Angela Mills
Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946 Mary Chapman and Angela Mills
Unshackled: The Story of How We Won the Vote Christabel Pankhurst

V-W

Title Author
Victory, How Women Won It: A Centennial Symposium, 1840-1940 National American Woman Suffrage Association
Vindication! A Postcard History of the Womenメs Movement Ian McDonald
Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 Wendy B. Sharer
Votes for Women Jean H. Baker
Votes for Women Elizabeth Robins
Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited Jean H. Baker
Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes Joyce Marlow
Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot Winifred Conkling
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot Winifred Conkling
We Shall Be Heard: Women Speakers in America Patricia Scileppi Kennedy and Gloria Hartmann O'Shields
Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage Lee Ann Banaszak
Winning the West for Women Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal
With Courage and Cloth Ann Bausum
Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler
Women in American History Trisha Franzen
Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State Susan Goodier
Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History Elizabeth Frost and Kathryn Cullen-Dupont

Children's Books

A-M

Title Author
A History of Voting Rights Tamra Orr
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights Kate Hannigan
A Tie to the Past David Wiseman
A Wider Tomorrow Margret Shaw
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights Deborah Kops
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles Mara Rockliff
Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Bicycle Madness Jane Kurtz
Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote Kirsten Gillibrand
Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women, #1) Evie Dunmore
Chasing Freedom Nikki Grimes
Created Equal Ann Rossi
Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist. Arsonist. Suffragette. Fern Riddell
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote Tanya Lee Stone
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble Doreen Rappaport
Failure is Impossible Martha E. Kendall
Half of the Human Race Anthony Quinn
Happy Birthday Samantha!: A Springtime Story (American Girls: Samantha, #4) Valerie Tripp
Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President Ann Malaspina
I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote Linda Arms White
If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights Anne Kamma
Lifting as We Climb Evette Dionne
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Jonah Winter
Make Trouble Cecile Richards
Mama Went to Jail for the Vote Kathleen Karr
Marching with Aunt Susan Claire Rudolf Murphy
Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage Claire Rudolf Murphy

M-Y

Title Author
Maria Takes a Stand: The Battle for Women's Rights Norma Jean Lutz
Miss Muriel Matters: The Australian Actress Who Became One of London's Most Famous Suffragists Robert Wainwright
Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote Dean Robbins
Mistress Suffragette Diana Forbes
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote Tina Cassidy
My Best Friend the Suffragette Sally Morgan
Opal Plumstead Jacqueline Wilson
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote Susan Zimet
She Takes A Stand Michael Elsohn Ross
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! Kathryn Lasky
Suffragette David Roberts
The Firefly Letters Margarita Engle
The Hope Chest Karen Schwabach
The Making of Mollie Anna Carey
The Militant Suffragettes Antonia Raeburn
The Road to Seneca Falls Gwenyth Swain
The Women's Suffrage Movement Sally Roesch Wagner
Two Friends Dean Robbins
Voting Rights Days (Hitty's Travels, #3) Ellen Weiss
We Shall Fight Until We Win Laura Jones
Wheels of Change Sue Macy
When Esther Morris Headed West: Women, Wyoming, and the Right to Vote Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Why Couldn't Susan B Anthony Vote? Mary Kay Carson
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story Peter Bagge
Women Win the Vote! Nancy B. Kennedy
You Come to Yokum Carol Otis Hurst
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Suffragist!: A Protest Movement That's Rougher Than You Expected Fiona MacDonald




Movies

One Woman, One Vote

Radio Free America

Iron Jawed Angels 

GirlFight: inVite





Attorney

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States

States that granted women the right to vote prior to the 19th Amendment

Wyoming (1890)

More resources available at wyomingllcattorney.com and gowyld.libguides.com

Colorado (1893)

Utah (1896)

More resources available at archives.utah.gov

Idaho (1896)

Washington (1910)

California (1911)

Arizona (1912)

Kansas (1912)

More resources available at lwvk.org

Oregon (1912)

Montana (1914)
Nevada (1914)

New York (1917)

Michigan (1918)

Oklahoma (1918)

South Dakota (1918)

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