The Fight for Freedom for Women (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action, No. 9)

157 pp. The Women who led the campaigns had to be physically and mentally strong. They not only faced hours of arduous work collecting signatures, addressing meetings, and composing petitions. They also had to combat apathy, ridicule, ostracism, slander, imprisonment, and almost every other form of punishment society could devise.