num_pages: 217
description: Overview: As the fight for women's suffrage heats up, Kathleen "Cat" Bowen gets to participate as her mother and her sister, and many others close to her organize and act to win the right to vote. It is January 19, 1917 and the picket line has been going on for over a week! People said that it would not last a day. News of the picket has spread and more and more women are coming from other parts of the district , some from as far away as Maryland and Virginia. The women's suffragette movement has taken hold and Cat Bowen is right in the thick of it. Ages 9-12.
language: English
title: A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington D.C., 1917
titlecomplete: A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington D.C., 1917 (Dear America)
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, 20th Century, Diary, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Feminism, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 2481
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Dear America
publisher: Scholastic