Book: Dare to QuestionDare to Question: Carrie Chapman Catt's Voice for the Vote by Jasmine A. Stirling

Dare to QuestionDare to Question:

 Carrie Chapman Catt's Voice for the Vote by Jasmine A. Stirling

Hardcover

48 pages

Young Reader Book

As a child, Carrie Chapman Catt asked a lot of questions: How many stars are in the sky? Do germs have personalities? And why can’t Mama vote? Catt’s curiosity led her to college, to a career in journalism, and finally to becoming the president of The National American Woman Suffrage Association. Catt knew the movement needed a change—and she set to work mobilizing women (and men) across the nation to dare to question a woman’s right to vote.

On August 18, 1920, Catt pinned a yellow rose to her dress and waited while lawmakers in Tennessee cast their deciding votes to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. After a seventy-year campaign, had women finally won the right to vote?