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Votes for Women Book Club

Votes for Women Book Club

Monday, April 13 · 6 p.m. Des Moines Civic Center
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Monday, April 13 · 6 p.m. Des Moines Civic Center
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ABOUT THE SHOW

Suffs will take the Civic Center Stage next month, we invite you to join our "Votes for Women" Book Club.

You are welcome to read any book about the suffrage movement, a particular suffragist, or even voting rights through history and currently. See our recommended reading list below.

Join us for an informal book chat on the Civic Center Stage, Monday, April 13th 6:00-7:00 pm.

This is a free event. All attendees must register. Space is limited.

We'll welcome literary partners from our community with representatives from local bookstores and libraries.

BEHIND EVERY POWERFUL WOMAN… ARE MORE POWERFUL WOMEN.

Direct from Broadway, comes the acclaimed Tony Award®-winning Suffs about the brilliant, passionate, and funny American women who fought tirelessly for the right to vote. 

Recommended reading list: 

  • African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote by Rosalyn Terborg-Pen
  • Alice Paul: Claiming Power by J.D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry
  • From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights by Chrisine Lunardini
  • Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens
  • Uphill with Banners Flying by Inez Haynes Irwin
  • Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
  • Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling
  • Why They Marched - Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right To Vote by Susan Ware

“Like all of the best Broadway musicals, Suffs humanizes, empowers, moves, and entertains.” Chicago Tribune