If you are looking to read and talk about history, this is the book group for you!
Each season we will read non-fiction and fiction on a certain topic or era. For the spring, we will read The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss which we will discuss on Monday, March 23 at 7 pm. For our second meeting on Monday, April 27 at 7 pm we will read from a list of books covering the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have approved the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote; one last state–Tennessee–is needed for women’s voting rights to be the law of the land. The suffragists face vicious opposition from politicians, clergy, corporations, and racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the “Antis”–women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the nation’s moral collapse. And in one hot summer, they all converge for a confrontation, replete with booze and blackmail, betrayal and courage. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, The Woman’s Hour is the gripping story of how America’s women won their own freedom, and the opening campaign in the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
Ages: Adult
Cost: Free
Contact: Mary at shannon@haverfordlibrary.org
