Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S.

The Eisner Award-winning graphic history of women’s suffrage in the U.S. returns in paperback, with additional commentary about the author’s personal experiences of the book’s release, the recent devastating attacks on voting rights in America—and how we can organize to continue the fight.

In Suffrage Song, cartoonist Caitlin Cass traces women’s fight to vote in the U.S., a fight that waged over a century, from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Cass takes a critical, intersectional approach to the history of voting rights — celebrating the pivotal, hard-fought suffrage battles while also illuminating the problematic decisions that haunt the movement. She explores the multigenerational arc of the struggle, humanizing key historical figures from the movement’s early days (Susan B. Anthony, Frances Watkins Harper), to the dawn of the “New Women” (Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell), to the Civil Rights era (Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker). Additionally, this book highlights less chronicled figures such as Zitkala-Ša and Mabel Ping Hua-Lee, whose stories reveal the complex racial dynamics at the heart of this history.

Released to wide acclaim in 2024, Suffrage Song has become an essential document of suffrage history, whose themes and lessons echo powerfully into the present. The paperback edition will feature a new chapter, in which the author reflects on the surreal nature of releasing a politically charged book amidst America’s fascist takeover, documents the recent devastating attacks on voting rights in the country, and encourages readers to get involved through organizing and activist efforts.