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'Finish The Fight' Paints A Different Picture Of Women Who Pushed For A Vote

The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment offers an opportunity to take a closer look at stories of women of the movement — those we think we already know, and those that have been lost to history.
<em>Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote,</em> by Veronica Chambers and the Staff of The New York Times

In recent years, the image of the American suffragist has been evoked by women in Congress wearing white.

But the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment has been an opportunity for some to take a closer look at the stories of the women of the movement — the ones we think we already know, and the ones that have been lost to history.

Finish the Fight!: is a picture book by Veronica Chambers and the staff of — and it paints a very different picture of the various women who fought for the right to vote.

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