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A review by lostinausten
History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote by Kate Messner
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
The journey to gain women the right to vote.
I love how brutally honest this book was. It discusses the dark and challenging journey a group of brave women went on to try and gain the right to vote. It goes into great depths about how skewed history is, for example, how we only know about a few famous suffragettes because they're the ones who literally wrote the book that provides most of the history. It also discusses how divided some of the suffrage groups were due to their racism and belief that black woman shouldn't be able to vote. It's so tragic about how not all women had each other's back and some put hate first. The end of the book got me so emotional of what women and many others have endured and have been able to overcome.
Quote of the book: Men who settled in the US, inequality was a tradition 😑😶
I love how brutally honest this book was. It discusses the dark and challenging journey a group of brave women went on to try and gain the right to vote. It goes into great depths about how skewed history is, for example, how we only know about a few famous suffragettes because they're the ones who literally wrote the book that provides most of the history. It also discusses how divided some of the suffrage groups were due to their racism and belief that black woman shouldn't be able to vote. It's so tragic about how not all women had each other's back and some put hate first. The end of the book got me so emotional of what women and many others have endured and have been able to overcome.
Quote of the book: Men who settled in the US, inequality was a tradition 😑😶