Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote

This nonfiction picture book, BOLD & BRAVE, starts with the author, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, talking about her childhood and how important voting was in her family and how her trailblazing great-grandmother was her role model: "Mimi taught me to be bold and to believe there was nothing I couldn't do." She goes on to offer capsule biographies of 10 women who led the fight for women's right to vote, starting with original suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and ending with Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), an African American educator who co-founded and led the National Association of Colored Women. Terrell fought to make sure that even in a segregated society, black women would gain the right to vote as well as white women. "Mary continued to fight against discrimination, knowing that not until all women reached their full potential could America reach its," Gillibrand writes. The story continues right up through the 2017 Women's March, with a two-page spread showing pink-hatted women demonstrating in Washington, D.C., as millions of women did across the country that day.