Overview

In 1872, fifteen women dared to vote! It was a time when women were not allowed to vote in the United States, but these women decided to challenge that rule. They walked into a general store in Rochester, New York, and voted for the President of the United States, not knowing if they would be arrested, or even sent to jail! Mama Votes! is told through the eyes of a young girl who watches her mother join that brave group of women. Led by the famous suffragette Susan B. Anthony, they shock the city of Rochester and the nation by insisting that they, as U.S. citizens, have the same right to vote as men do. In addition to the story, this book includes a two-act play about the event that can be performed in places like schools, youth groups, or even read aloud at the library or at home. Through the book and play, you will learn what happened as a result of this daring action taken by brave women who risked everything to win the right to vote. It would take many more years, but their efforts, and those of other dedicated and courageous women, would lead to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, exactly 100 years ago in 1920, that finally gave women the right to vote.

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...Meyers' writing is breezy and easy to follow...her fictional storyline doesn't stray far from historical events...The play also allows the storytellers the freedom to ask the audience powerful questions: What will be the year when you will cast your first vote? An earnest, thoughtful book that will serve as an effective tool for educators. - Kirkus Reviews

"""...Meyers' writing is breezy and easy to follow...her fictional storyline doesn't stray far from historical events...The play also allows the storytellers the freedom to ask the audience powerful questions: ""What will be the year when you will cast your first vote?"" An earnest, thoughtful book that will serve as an effective tool for educators."" - Kirkus Reviews"

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"The author of the story, Madeleine Meyers, became interested in the event described in Mama Votes! when working on a book on Woman Suffrage. While doing research for Forward Into Light: The Struggle for Woman's Suffrage (Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1994) she learned of the events of 1872 and first encountered the famous letter in which Susan B. Anthony says ""I have been and gone and done it."" With the approach of the 100 th anniversary of the 19 th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, Ms. Meyers felt it was the perfect time to introduce girls and boys to this courageous attempt to vote. More recently, watching a young girl's delight with reading a play aloud inspired her to include a play version of the story. Ms. Meyers' career includes work as a children's librarian, and as the Coordinator of Education Outreach and Librarian at an MIT research facility. She has authored a weekly newspaper column, and is the co-author of several articles on science education. This is her fifth book. Priscilla Stevens began her career in playwriting by teaching about 40 students in grades 1-3 in a one-room schoolhouse in Vermont how to write a musical play about Spring. This sparked a 37-year career in teaching students of all ages to write plays, songs, musicals, and operas, and producing some of her own plays as well. In addition, she taught English, Theatre Arts, and Acting at the high school and college levels, directed plays and musicals for high school and college, founded Shakespearean Players groups at various schools, and, as a freelance director, created productions in regional repertory theatre in Northern Ireland, designed sets, lighting, and costumes for various theatre productions over the years, acted, and recently directed and presented narration for a variety of events and productions, including those for a small New England opera company. Next year, she will be presenting pre-concert talks for large chorus concerts, and, always, always writing more plays, musical scripts, and literary, historical, and entertainment narratives and presentations. The opportunity to collaborate with Madeleine Myers on Mama Votes! to provide young readers with a way to really feel what it must have been like to be a fighter for women suffrage in the 19th century by acting out the story, and to understand the importance of this essential right and responsibility was irresistible, and a source of great delight and satisfaction."

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