FFL Book Discussion Group: Suffrage Song Online
Join other readers at this virtual discussion - on Zoom of Caitlin Cass's Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S.
Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and to obtain Zoom info.
About This Month's Book: Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S. by Caitlin Cass
New Yorker contributing cartoonist Caitlin Cass traces the fight for suffrage in the U.S. from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This intersectional history of women and voting rights chronicles the suffrage movement's triumphs, setbacks, and problematic aspects.
In Suffrage Song, Cass takes a critical, intersectional approach to the movement's history — celebrating the pivotal, hard-fought battles for voting rights while also laying bare the racist compromises suffrage leaders made along the way. She explores the multigenerational arc of the movement, humanizing key historical figures from the early days of the suffrage fight (Susan B. Anthony, Frances Watkins Harper), to the dawn of the "New Women" (Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell), to the Civil Rights era (Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker). Additionally, this book sheds light on less chronicled figures such as Zitkala-Ša and Mabel Ping Hua-Lee, whose stories reveal the complex racial dynamics that haunt this history.
Limited copies of the book are available for checkout at the Main Desk.
- Date:
- Wednesday, November 12, 2025
- Time:
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://fletcherfree.org/book-discussion-group
- Audience:
- Adults