Lifting As We Climb
Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
New York : Viking, 2020.
Format: Book
Description: 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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.
Contents:
Preface: not the history you learned in school -- Abolitionist women embrace the fight -- "Ain't I a woman?" : the cult of true womanhood -- The Negro hour is upon us -- The rise of Black women's suffrage clubs -- Voting is only for educated women -- Taking it to the streets -- The back of the movement : the Women's Suffrage March -- Voting out Jim Crow -- Epilogue: continuing to climb.
Subjects:
United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.
United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780451481542
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C SOCIAL SCI Dio | Blythewood | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SOCIAL SCI Dio | Edgewood | Display, Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2021.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2021.