Happy 90th Birthday, 19th Amendment!

The 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, became law on August 26th, 1920.

Some books you might want to read on the subject include:

The process of securing the right to vote for women was an important phase in feminism. Suffrage was first proposed as a part of a general declaration of the rights of women signed at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Chapters in this anthology discuss the roots of the movement, its tactics and disagreements, opposition to the suffragists, and the impact of the Nineteenth Amendment on American society. (Pensacola Campus JK1896 .H54 2006)

They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a political cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed in prisons). And like every revolutionary before them, their struggle was personal. (Milton and Pensacola Campus JK1896 .B35 2005)

In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. (Milton Campus JK1896 .V67 2002)

Welcome to Pensacola State College! On this first day of the new term, please let me remind you of the many materials and services that the libraries offer to Pensacola State College students:

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  FREE computer use – the Pensacola campus library has over 40 computers available for student use. Students present their student ID cards to use a computer for a 2 hour period.


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  FREE study rooms – the Pensacola campus library has 8 study rooms available for student use. Students present their student ID cards to use a study room for a 2 hour period.


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  FREE books – not textbooks , unfortunately! The libraries have more than 50,000 titles available for checking out. Books that the libraries do not own can usually be borrowed from another library – free! Students present their student ID cards to check out books. Most books are checked out for 4 weeks, but there are some exceptions.


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  FREE DVDs – many popular and recent titles, such as Precious, 2012, and Alice in Wonderland. Students present their student ID cards to check out DVDs for a 7 day checkout.


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  FREE Research Help – a Reference Librarian is available on each campus every day, all day. The librarian can help you find information for your class assignments, research papers, or just because you want to know more about something.


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  FREE magazine, journal, and newspaper articles – these are available by using one of the many databases available to students. Begin by going to the library’s homepage at http://lrc.pjc.edu. (Please remember that this web address will be changing as everything changes to Pensacola State URLs.)

The student ID required to use these materials and services is also FREE! IDs can be obtained in Bldg. 5 on the Pensacola campus, Bldg. 4200 on the Milton campus, and Bldg. 3300 on the Warrington campus.

Hope you have a great semester of learning!