Bring the past alive with quick links to explore over 140 additional screens of additional reference and encyclopedia content, streaming audio reenactments, images of relevant source documents, and photographs of historic individuals. As the fight for women's suffrage heats up, Kathleen "Cat" Bowen gets to participate as her mother and her sister, and many others close to her organize and act to win the right to vote. It is January 19, 1917 and the picket line has been going on for over a week! People said that it would not last a day. News of the picket has spread and more and more women are coming from other parts of the district , some from as far away as Maryland and Virginia. The women?s suffragette movement has taken hold and Cat Bowen is right in the thick of it.
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Author: Lasky, Kathryn
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Illustration: Y
Language: ENG
Title: Dear America: A Time for Courage, the Diary of Kathleen Bowen
Pages: 00176 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2001-10-15
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780590511414
Age: 09-12
Reading Level: 04-07
Lib Category: Women
Lib Category: World War, 1914-1918
Category: Juvenile Fiction : Historical - General
Category: Juvenile Fiction : Girls & Women
Category: Juvenile Fiction : Historical - United States - 20th Century