This middle grade reader is a must read for kids and adults to understand the importance of voting.

This timeline of how women won the right to vote in this country explains how they dealt with misogynistic and racist forces that literally tried to beat them into submission and giving up.

This book is inspiring and informative as it explains the battles that have been fought for the right to cast a vote on Election Day.

I received an ARC for an honest review.

I loved this book. What a wonderful look at how the world has and can change. So many bad ass humans. I love these books where you feel empowered.

"From moments of inspiration to some of the movement’s darker aspects—including the racism of some suffragist leaders, violence against picketers, and hunger strikes in jail—this clear-eyed view takes in the role of key figures: Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, and many more."

"The Suffragist Playbook" by Robb and Boggs Roberts is the perfect introduction to the suffragist movement. As 2020 celebrates the centennial of the 19th Amendment, now is the perfect time to brush up on our history and remember that the fight for equal rights was hard fought, racially fraught, and incomplete. Included throughout the book are the various leaders, pivotal moments, and most effective strategies. A full reading will help guide your further studies into this subject.

Most of us have heard of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the often glossed-over lessons on women’s suffrage in our high school history classes. Though, when it comes to the great feat of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920, much of that history is usually left unsaid and, generally, extremely whitewashed. The Suffragist’s Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World relays a brief history of women’s suffrage through the work of not just some of the well-known white suffragists, but also powerful women of color like Sojourner Truth and others, showing the long, hard battle they fought against misogyny and the patriarchy. By putting into simple terms what happened beyond the marches and picketing, Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts accentuate the fact that suffragists wrote articles, raised money, went on hunger strikes, and spoke out against their family members to achieve their goal: the rights of women to vote and have personal freedom outside of the bounds of marriage in the 19th and 20th centuries.

As such, Robb and Roberts highlight not only historical moments of victory, but confront the racism of prominent white suffragists and the instances of extreme violence against picketers. By giving brief glimpses into the lives of suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Lucy Stone, and several more, the simple steps required to make your voice heard are laid out for readers: tell your story, make it personal, set a goal you wish to achieve, and never give up until you get your point across. Through the engaging narratives of Robb and Roberts, whose families have been friends for several generations, the combination of historical fact and actual suffragist tactics seamlessly emphasizes what it takes to be an activist and ally today.

This is a helpful guide for all of those little suffragists out there. Thoughtful advice is given as well as a history of women’s suffrage in the United States. I was pleased with the discussion of racism in the suffrage movement as well. Will recommend.

This book is both a history of of women's suffrage in the US and a guide to how to become an activist for a cause you believe in. Written in a conversational tone with actionable steps, this is a great primer for anyone looking to get into activism. By tying this together with examples from the women's suffrage movement in the United States, the reader gets both a history lesson and advice.

I particularly appreciated the way that the authors didn't shy away from the racism that steeped the American women's suffrage movement. While the explain it, helping the reader to understand the why of the racism for many of these women, they don't make excuses for it, nor do they excuse it as an understandable side effect of going for what they wanted; these suffragists are rightly held to task for the hypocrisy inherent in their racist stances and calls it what it was. There is also the inclusion of important Black suffragists and some information about the organizations that they founded and worked within.

Timely and practically organized. I feel that this book is a good primer for the young and aspiring activist. Like many early reviewers, I feel the book would benefit from more graphics, and the cover somehow led me to believe that it was, in fact, a graphic novel. As a high school librarian, I am likely to purchase this title and feel that it'll circulate well.

The Suffragist Playbook is an excellent guide to activism for everyone! It would make an excellent addition to an upper elementary through high school classroom as a way to introduce how to become an activist and the importance of finding one's voice, fighting for a cause, and voting in every election. I really liked the graphic that introduces the concepts of each chapter of the book and appreciate that there is also a section about racism. The conversational tone of the book is engaging and approachable, though I would have liked to see graphics integrated into the book to better appeal to the target audience, as it is text dense.

Advanced readers copy provided courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review.