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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
Most of us are well aware that there is something fundamentally broken about the way we vote, but not why. In One Person, No Vote, the author chronicles a timely, comprehensive, and powerful indictment of the history of brutal race-based vote suppression, and its many modern iterations- from voter ID requirements and voter purges to election fraud, and stolen elections. She also traces the related history of the rollbacks to African American participation...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The president of a nonpartisan law and policy institute at NYU describes the fight for the right to vote and the historical, and ongoing, efforts by some to making voting difficult for the elderly, poor, and the young. By the author of The Second Amendment.
Author
Series
American girls collection volume Samantha, 1
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Language
English
Description
We hear a lot about political campaigns on the news, but there's tons to know about elections beyond the politics of each race. Who gets to vote? Who gets to run? What do elected officials do once they're in office--and what do candidates do if they lose? Why do people fight so hard for the right to vote? In this kid-friendly, fact-filled book, young readers will find out how Americans choose their leaders, local and federal, and why elections should...
Author
Series
American girls collection volume Samantha, 4
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Language
English
Description
When Samantha's tenth birthday party is spoiled by the boy next door, Aunt Cornelia and her young twin sisters try to ease Samantha's disappointment by inviting her and Grandmary to visit them in New York City.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A look at how suffragettes brought their political messages into American homes through cookbooks that appealed to women in nonthreatening and accessible ways and ran counter to the militant and stern caricatures often associated with the movement.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Women's Suffrage examines the evidence of the fight for women's equality, from the mid-1800s in North America to the global struggles that continue today. Past struggles of the equal rights movement are uncovered with primary source documents and photos that bring key figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Margaret Gordon, and Nellie McClung to life. Different perspectives are featured including Anti-Suffrage forces...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In early 2021 lawmakers across the country began passing new voting restrictions based on false claims of widespread election fraud. New voting laws increased voter ID requirements, reduced access to mail-in ballots, and cut the number of places voters could vote or drop off ballots. Some new election laws allow partisan observers, called poll-watchers, to closely monitor the actions of election officials and voters. But the new election laws are...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware uncoversa much broader and more diverse history waiting to be told. Why They Marched is the inspiring story of the dedicated women--and occasionally men--who carried the banner in communities across the nation,...
14) The vote
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by primary source documents, this resource chronicles the birth of the women's rights movement at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848; the suffragists' sometimes-contentious partnership with the abolitionist movement; and the slow build toward national suffrage. The efforts of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other important leaders are recognized.
18) Fight for rights
Author
Series
Publisher
Steck-Vaughn/Harcourt Achieve
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian England, a young girl named Mary is drawn into the fight for women's right to vote. She realizes that the struggle will be a long and difficult one. Could it also be dangerous?"--Cover verso. Includes factual information about workhouses, women's suffrage movements in other countries, and suffragists' direct action campaigns.
19) The Hope Chest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.