March of the Suffragettes: Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the March for Voting Rights

by Zachary Michael Jack

Overview

March of the Suffragettes tells the forgotten, real-life story of "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who in the waning days of 1912 mustered and marched an all-women army nearly 200 miles to help win support for votes for women. General Jones, along with her good friends and accomplices "Colonel" Ida Craft, "Surgeon General" Lavinia Dock, and "War Correspondent" Jessie Hardy Stubbs, led marchers across New York state for their pilgrims' cause, encountering not just wind, fog, sleet, snow, mud, and ice along their unpaved way, but also hecklers, escaped convicts, scandal-plagued industrialists on the lam, and jealous boyfriends and overprotective mothers hoping to convince the suffragettes to abandon their dangerous project. By night Rosalie's army met and mingled with the rich and famous, attending glamorous balls in beautiful dresses to deliver fiery speeches; by day they fought blisters and bone-chilling cold, debated bitter anti-suffragists, and dodged wayward bullets and pyrotechnics meant to intimidate them. They composed and sang their own marching songs for sisterhood and solidarity on their route, even as differences among them threatened to tear them apart. March of the Suffragettes chronicles the journey of four friends across dangerous terrain in support of a timeless cause, and it offers a hopeful reminder that social change is achieved one difficult, dauntless, daring step at a time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541581913
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	12 - 13 Years

About the Author

Zachary Michael Jack is an award-winning author and editor of more than twenty books, a former youth and bookmobile librarian, and a founding director of an Iowa-based summer arts school for young adults. He has served as a visiting writer or writer-in-the-schools at school districts and school libraries across the country and as the lead instructor for a popular writers' workshop for tweens and teens, the Master Class for Young Writers. An associate professor of English at North Central College, the author teaches courses in Leadership, Ethics and Values, and Writing for Social Change, among others. Zachary's most recent book of nonfiction celebrating women's history, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon, has been featured on National Public Radio affiliates across the Midwest.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Women of Action 7

Chapter 1 First Steps 13

Chapter 2 Forward March! 27

Chapter 3 Pilgrims Four 43

Chapter 4 Heartaches and Jailbreaks 52

Chapter 5 Even Generals Have Mothers 63

Chapter 6 Letters from the Front 76

Chapter 7 Lives of the Rich and Famous 87

Chapter 8 A Pilgrim's Christmas 97

Chapter 9 Jingle Bells and Shotgun Shells 118

Chapter 10 Albany or Bust! 127

Chapter 11 In the Fight! 132

Chapter 12 A Suffragette New Year 148

Notes 153

Editorial Reviews

"With an informal writing style, this is an engaging title that will appeal to many readers. The use of newspapers accounts of the march helps bring this event into the 21st century.  A fine chronicle of the early 20th-century United States and the tenacity of Rosalie Gardiner Jones.”—School Library Journal

"Though the book is a perfect vehicle to get teen-agers interested in reading about history, the complexity and density of information Jack provides, as well as his facility with humor and dramatic tension, will also hook more mature readers."—Santa Fe New Mexican

From the Publisher

11/01/2016
Gr 7 Up—In 1912, a well-educated woman from an established New York family led a 175-mile march from New York City to the state capitol in Albany with the goal of handing the governor a petition urging him to support voting rights for women. A trek that began with much hoopla and a huge turnout of supporters eventually came down to just Rosalie Gardiner Jones and her associates Ida Craft, Lavinia Dock, and Jessie Hardy Stubbs. They refused to be dissuaded by family members, unruly bystanders, the lack of food, and the cold weather. Their dedication to the cause was as strong as their friendship for one another, and this combination catapulted them to success. With an informal writing style, this is an engaging title that will appeal to many readers. The use of newspapers accounts of the march helps bring this event into the 21st century. VERDICT A fine chronicle of the early 20th-century United States and the tenacity of Rosalie Gardiner Jones.—Patricia Ann Owens, formerly at Illinois Eastern Community Colleges, Mt. Carmel

School Library Journal