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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