Harriet Wants To Vote 

 

Harriet Wants To Vote is a little storybook about a little girl named Harriet who wants to vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860. But alas she can’t vote and what is worse her mother can’t vote either.  Harriet learned that women did not get to vote. She never accepted it.  She became a suffragist and waited her whole life to vote.  She finally got to vote near the end of her life, when she was 70 years old. The 19th amendment was ratified in 1920 — “giving” women the right to vote.

In 2019, 100 years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, I completed the book about Mary Bonnet Ankeny Hunter, a real Iowa suffragist, and published her biography.  I also spearheaded many activities within my DAR chapter to recognize and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment.  I created a calendar for our chapter that highlighted upcoming events but more importantly provided the history of the early Iowa suffrage leaders.  You might say I was passionate about the history of women’s right to vote.

So, I had the brain storm to create this little book for grade school girls.  I talked my son, Nathan T. Wright, into illustrating this little storybook and here it is.  I love this little book.  I love the message. Within this book, my Ankeny relatives and historians will find “Easter eggs”. Little hidden reminders of the Ankeny family, names, events, places.  It was fun to intertwine it all together.

This book can be purchased on Amazon.com or contact me for a copy.