Review of "Around America to Win the Vote," by Mara Rockliff
Review of
Around America to Win the Vote,
by Mara Rockliff ISBN 9781536208368
Five out of five stars
A challenging adventure of two women
On April 6,
1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke climbed aboard a small yellow car, loaded
tools, a small typewriter, a small sewing machine, spare parts, a large trunk
and a kitten and then set out to drive westward across the country. They were
suffragettes and their goal was to make many stops where they would attend parties
and make speeches in support of giving women the right to vote.
This was a
significant challenge, for there were very few paved roads and in some areas
there were not even roads as we know them. Gas stations were also extremely
rare, so they had to take care regarding their fuel situation. The word “motel”
is an abbreviations for “motor hotel” and at the time, they also were
nonexistent. What maps that existed were very primitive. Therefore, for much of
their trip they really did not know at the start of their day what they would
experience, where they would end up and how they would get there.
A significant
adventure of several thousand miles over what was for all practical purposes
uncharted territory, these two women demonstrated great courage for their cause
of getting women the right to vote. This is a great book for the early
elementary school student. It was published in 2020 to celebrate the centennial
of the nineteenth amendment that granted women the right to vote.
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