‘A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and The Battle For The Ballot’ by Mary Walton

By NWHP admin on September 24th, 2010

A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and The Battle For The Ballot by Mary Walton is a cogent non-fiction account of how suffragist Alice Paul and a slew of female crusaders ( Lucretia Mott, Mabel Vernon, Jane Addams, Maud Malone, Anna Shaw, Ida Wells-Barnett and Harriet Stanton Blatch) fought for women’s inalienable right to vote inspite of the odds.

She held public displays, protests, parades, picketing as well as an assortment of other techniques as a way to promulgate and provide visibility for women to have the constitutional right to vote. This book colorfully lists how Paul, a Quaker from New Jersey, was bitten by a ‘divinely inspired’ urge to fix the unequal mistreatment of women by helping to pass the historic 19th amendment assuring women equal rights.

Mary Walton, a veteran reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, condensed a story of the 10 years, between 1909 and 1919 yet magnified it in a rich story. She paints a loud picture but with quiet observation over how Paul (1885-1977) and many other women fought for the women’s movement, started in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

This 284 page book can be purchased online or at your local book store for 28$. It’s the kind of treasure that grandmothers, mothers and daughters can pass down for generations since it’s a vibrant reminder over how hard women fought, not only for the right to vote but for women today to be supreme court judges, secretary of state, world-famous scientists, lawyers and doctors.

By Sherryn Daniel

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