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Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
This study of African American women's roles in the suffrage movement breaks new ground. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from many original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who sought the right to vote. She discovers numerous Black suffragists previously unknown. Analyzing the women's own stories, she examines why they joined the woman suffrage movement in the United States and how they participated in it - with white...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Rusted slavery chains, politcal cartoons, and a tube of red lipstick . . . how are these three objects related? Along with other artifacts, these items help tell the story of women's suffrage in the United States. In this Time Capsule History book, readers take a closer look at the historic fight by digging into an imaginary time capsule filled with primary sources. Open it up to explore the fight for voting rights!
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An answer to the assault on voting rights--crucial reading in advance of the 2020 presidential election. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s, Abby and Julia Smith refused to pay an unfair property tax that they had no voice in establishing. When the authorities confiscated their cows, the Smiths bought them back at auction, year after year, attracting the attention of women's suffrage supporters across the country.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles women's struggle for suffrage in the United States, including the contributions of such prominent figures as Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novel volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer's block, and a tense time for England's women's rights campaign--the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father's distractingly attractive young colleague. Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Women's suffrage in America came down to a single voter in Tennessee who voted yes because of a letter his mother had written, urging "Vote for suffrage and don't forget to be a good boy." This is the story of the letter than gave all American women a voice"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Profiles ten women who fought hard to gain the right to vote in the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Inez Milholland."--
