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Author
Publisher
Redhook Books/Orbit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 516 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle.
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
YA edition.
Language
English
Description
In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
791 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote. One last state is needed. After a seven-decade suffragist crusade, it all comes down to Tennessee. Following the remarkable women who led their forces into battle, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women's rights had personal roots. Working as a school teacher in New York, Anthony refused to settle for less pay than her male colleagues which ignited her lifelong devotion to women's equality. Anthony toured the United States and Europe giving speeches and publishing articles as one of the most important advocates of women's rights. Learn more about the woman behind the movement...