101 years ago this month, women in America won the right to vote. But getting to that point was something of a bumpy road - in some cases, quite literally.
Publisher: Maine Authors Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-63381-259-8The names Ingeborg Kinstedt and Maria Kindbergprobably donât ring a bell unless you are acquainted with thewomanâs suffrage movement. Yet, these two middle-aged Swedishimmigrants, who settled in Rhode Island, played a meaningful role inthe early part of the twentieth century in the movement.
Based on a true story, Anne B. Gass in
WeDemand: The Suffrage Road Trip crafts afictional reconstruction of a bold 3000-mile cross-country auto tripfrom San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 involving Ingeborg andMaria.
The two, along with Sara Bard Field and socialiteFrances Joliffe were to amass and deliver thousands of signatures ona petition to Congress and President Wilson, demanding womenâsright to vote.