Special Discussion for Women's History Month--Get a Free Copy of the Book!

Join a special guest from the League of Women Voters of the Charleston Area in celebrating the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which secured for women the right to vote, with a discussion of The Women's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss.

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible.
Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights. (From the publisher)

We have a limited number of free copies available at the Fiction and Reference Desks at Main Library, so stop by to get yours soon! You can also reserve a library copy of the book with your library card at the link above.

We hope you will join the discussion: Monday, March 16, at 6:00 p.m. in Meeting Room B at Main Library.