In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...

This inspiring story is about an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take no for an answer

Profiles the life and accomplishments of the schoolteacher who became the most famous leader of the women's rights movement.

Alice Paul has long been an elusive figure in the political history of American women. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and, in the next seven years, dominated that campaign and drove it to victory with bold, controversial action, wedding courage with resourcefulness...

Examines the longest reform movement in American history and the fortitude and commitment of the several generations of women who persevered

A brief biography of women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony that discusses her early years and her battle to earn women fair treatment and the right to vote.

Recounts the story of the nineteenth-century activist who spent much of her life fighting for women's rights

Tells the story of Elizabeth Stanton's fight for women's suffrage through the eyes of a young girl in Tenafly, New Jersey, in 1880