Welcome
Use this page to learn more about the WHAM 2020 Theme: Women & The Vote. 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the United States. On this page, you'll find resources that will help you learn the history of women and the vote, as well as resources to help you vote now, in 2020.
Women's Voting Rights PSA
Online Historical Resources for Women & the Vote
- 20 Suffragists to Know For 2020Explore the stories of women's access to the vote across America, through the histories of these 20 people who were among those who made it possible.
- California 2020 Women’s Suffrage ProjectThe CA 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project supports the 2020 Suffrage Centennial education projects and Centennial celebrations throughout the state of California in 2020.
- California and the 19th AmendmentLearn the history of the suffragist movement in California.
- Rightfully Hers: American Women and the VoteIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote highlights the relentless struggle of diverse activists throughout U.S. history to secure voting rights for all American women. This online exhibit is created by the National Archives.
- Turning Point Suffragist MemorialLearn about the proposed national suffragist memorial, including documents and historical information on the suffragist movement. The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial will provide an overview of the entire movement, including African American suffragists who are often left out of the history books.
- Women's Suffrage Centennial CommissionThis website provides information about the efforts and undertakings of the women's suffrage movement in the United States in a nonpartison fashion.
- Women Get the Right to Vote: Celebrating 99 Years of Women's SuffrageFrom the California State Archives, this page collects documents related to women's right to vote in the US and California.
Books on Women & The Vote
You can find these books in print on the library's shelves, or online. The ones that are available in print will have a call number listed. Use this to find the book on the library's shelves (and ask a librarian for help if you get confused!). The rest of the books will be available to read online by clicking the link in the book's title.
Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States by Call Number: HQ1410 .F6 1996ISBN: 0674106539Publication Date: 1996-03-01
Women and the Vote: A World History by Call Number: JF851 .A43 2014ISBN: 9780198706847Publication Date: 2014-11-18
Fighting Chance: the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America by Call Number: JK1896 .D79 2011ISBN: 9780199772636Publication Date: 2011-07-13
The Suffragents: How women used men to get the vote by Call Number: JK1896 .K57 2017ISBN: 9781438466293Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and class in the campaign against woman suffrage by Call Number: JK1896 .M38 1997ISBN: 0299154645Publication Date: 1997-07-15
A History of the American Suffragist Movement by Call Number: JK1896 .W43 1998ISBN: 1576070654Publication Date: 1998-06-01
Women and the U. S. Constitution by Call Number: KF478.A5 W654 2003ISBN: 0231502966Publication Date: 2004-02-18
The Susan B. Anthony Women's Voting Rights Trial by Call Number: KF4895 .Z9 M63 2002ISBN: 0766017591Publication Date: 2002-01-01
The Weight of Their Votes: Southern women and political leverage in the 1920s by ISBN: 1469606224Publication Date: 2008-09-15
Get Help Voting
- Get Out the BC VoteA guide to voting, created by the BC Library. Get help voting in local and national elections.
- Kern VoteUse this page to find information about voting and elections in Kern County.