Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.

And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin.

The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot.
The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen.

Susan Zimet founded 2020: Project Women, a nonprofit created to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. She is also a member of the New York State Suffrage Centennial Commission. The first woman to be elected Town Supervisor of New Paltz, New York, she has also served in the Ulster County Legislator. She has taught at SUNY-New Paltz, held the position of Vice President at Grey Advertising in New York, and currently works in the anti-hunger field.

She lives with her husband, Steve in Athens, New York. Visit her at susanzimet.com