Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

Author: Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 32
Cover Price: $ 16.99

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.

Here is the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.

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Background Information

It took a long struggle that succeeded in many individual states before voting rights for women were granted nationally by the 19th Amendment in 1920.