Recommended Reading

   The primary focus of  The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote (2018) Elaine Weiss, is the machinations around the vote in Tennessee. Passing by the slimmest of margins, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment thus giving women the right to vote. And, yes, the deciding vote in the House was cast by a man motivated by a letter from his mother.
    Equally as interesting as the maneuvering for and against the vote is the aftermath. Weiss connects the dots leading up to today. The forces arrayed against the vote can be traced to those who continue to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment today.
   The saddest record is how African American women, ans Blacks as a group, were thrown under the bus. She makes the connection between the struggle to give women the vote and contemporary efforts to restrict voting under the phony banner of "voter fraud."
   "This is not just a book about women's history, but rather a larger look at how we have evolved as a democracy and reacted to those asking for inclusion--a reaction we see playing out again and again." P. 7, of the discussion questions at the end of the book.  An examples are the Chinese were not allowed citizenship nor the vote until 1943, Asian Indians 1946 and Japanese Americans 1952.

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