Louisine Lights a Legacy

How Louisine Havemeyer Fired Up Women’s Suffrage (A Picture Book Biography)

The only picture-book biography about the important and influential leader of the suffragist movement: Louisine Havemeyer

In February 1919, Louisine Havemeyer led 100 women to picket in front of the White House. They were suffragists, marching for womens right to vote.

Louisine had been fortunate to grow up in a middle-class family that supported womens education. As she became friends with forward thinkers like the painter Mary Cassatt, Louisines worldview broadenedand her voice grew louder.

When Louisine became a wealthy widow, she used her unique position in society to support womens suffragestaging an art show to fund the cause, making rousing speeches on the campaign trail, and qualifying for Alice Pauls Prison Special train tour across America.

Celebrating an influential suffragist, Louisine Lights a Legacy tells the sto