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Lifting as we climb : Black women's battle for the ballot box / Evette Dionne.
Van Pelt - Notable Juvenile Books JK1898 .D56 2020
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dionne, Evette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution--19th Amendment--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- United States. Constitution--19th Amendment.
- Constitution (United States).
- Women--Suffrage--History--Juvenile literature.
- Women.
- African American women--Civil rights--History--Juvenile literature.
- African American women.
- Women--Suffrage--History.
- African American women--Civil rights--History.
- African American women--Civil rights.
- Women--Suffrage.
- History.
- Genre:
- Young adult.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Instructional and educational works.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
- Summary:
- "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's description.
- When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white. Dionne shows that the real story isn't monochromatic. Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for their right to vote and to be treated as full, equal citizens of the United States. They had to overcome deep, exclusionary racial prejudices that were rife in the American suffrage movement. Dionne draws an important historical line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists, and in doing so fills in the blanks of the American suffrage story. -- adapted from jacket and Goodreads info
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Abolitionist Women Embrace The Fight
- ch. 2 "Ain't I A Woman?": The Cult Of True Womanhood
- ch. 3 The Negro Hour Is Upon Us
- ch. 4 The Rise Of Black Women's Suffrage Clubs
- ch. 5 Voting Is Only For Educated Women
- ch. 6 Taking It To The Streets
- ch. 7 The Back Of The Movement: The Women's Suffrage March
- ch. 8 Voting Out Jim Crow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-156) and index.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780451481542
- 0451481542
- OCLC:
- 1099569335
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