Dare to Question

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Carrie Chapman Catt's Voice for the Vote

Jasmine A. Stirling, author of?A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, delivers a powerful, poetic picture book biography about suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, perfect for fans of?I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark?and the Rebel Girls series. 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? Stirling's suspenseful retelling of the dramatic final "yea" that changed the history of women s rights brings the past to life for young readers.