Finish the Fight!, Veronica Chambers
Finish the Fight!, Veronica Chambers
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Finish the Fight!
The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Author: Veronica Chambers, The Staff of The New York Times

Narrator: Midori Francis, Marisilda Garcia, Alicia Hall Moran, Mela Lee, Tatiana Carr

Unabridged: 2 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Versify

Published: 08/18/2020


Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller!In collaboration with the New York Times, Finish the Fight! reveals untold stories of diverse heroines who fought for the 19th amendment—celebrate the historic win for women’s rights and voting rights that changed the fabric of America.Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds—black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and more—who helped lead the fight for suffrage? On the hundredth anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the women whose stories have yet to be told.Gorgeous portraits accompany biographies of such fierce but forgotten women as Yankton Dakota Sioux writer and advocate Zitkála-Šá, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, who cofounded the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), and Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, who, at just sixteen years old, helped lead the biggest parade in history to promote the cause of suffrage.Finish the Fight! will fit alongside important collections that tell the full story of America's fiercest women.

About Veronica Chambers

Veronica Chambers is the editor for Narrative Projects at The New York Times. She is a prolific author, best known for the New York Times bestseller Finish the Fight!, which was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and others. Her other works include the critically acclaimed memoir Mama's Girl, Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb, and the anthologies The Meaning of Michelle—a collection by writers celebrating former first lady Michelle Obama—and Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, she writes often about her Afro-Latina heritage. She speaks, reads, and writes Spanish, but she is truly fluent in Spanglish.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on August 05, 2020

We wrote this book to be part of the remembering--of the importance of this decades-long struggle for equality and the inspiring women who changed the course of history by fighting tirelessly for the rights of American citizenship. Enjoyed reading this informative book written to commemorate the 100......more

Goodreads review by Skip on January 26, 2021

Having read about this book in the New York Times Book Review, I thought it was going to be a history of the fight for women’s suffrage and women's rights told in a series of biographical vignettes, starting with the 1848 convention held in Seneca Falls, NY. I was disappointed that it skipped all of......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on June 29, 2020

This is a beautifully inclusive nonfiction about women fighting for rights, especially to vote, and are not the stories we hear in history and NEED to hear. The group putting this together looked and found Chinese, Native American, and Black women who changed how people looked at suffrage and to the......more

Goodreads review by Sunday on May 17, 2024

Brilliant. Refreshing. Inspiring. The first chapter is about WOMEN IN AMERICA WHO COULD VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS before it ever became an issue in the United States. These women were members of the "Haudenosaunee, a confederacy of six Native American nations" (who lived across the area of NY state......more

Goodreads review by Debra on September 10, 2020

Excellent book for older children and YA's about women's suffrage. Love this book because it does not only focus on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's accomplishments, but looks at the suffrage movement and the contributions of black and brown women as well. I've read many scholarly books......more