Personal sacrifice and volunteerism are two of many things that a need by a society to survive. They are not something that is needed by everyone every single day but little bits from different people every once in a while really does help the society that we live in, even if you do not think it does. In Radical Red these two tings are shown in the preparation of women suffrage convention that took place in Albany, New York. Two people that showed these things the most in this book were Nora O"Shea and her daughter Connor O"Shea. These two women go through terrible things just for what they believe in which was women suffrage.
The O"Shea family was living in Albany, New York when the suffrage movement was occurring. Connor would go to school during weekdays and sometimes walk the way with her father; her mother, Nora, would stay home and do laundry for the senators family; and her father, Donal, was the sergeant of the capitol police hoping to someday be the captain. When the "crazy women" came to town is when their lives would be turned upside down. Connor's father hated these "crazy women" and what they were fighting for too. Unlike her father Connor was interested in the suffrage movement and the "crazy women", her dad called them. When she questioned her father about them he said they were people she should not be around and threatened her if she were ever to talk to one again that she would be hit with the belt. .
Despite her father threats Connor still perused her question of what they wanted and what was "the vote" that these women wanted. She asked her teacher and was now on the way to becoming one of these radical women that would wear the red ribbons on their hats. Connor listened to her teacher and realized that "the vote" was important and that women did disserve to have it. She went to a women in the street handing out pamphlets and took three, she gave one to her friend Doreen, one to her teacher, and one for her to read to her mother.