| Description |
170 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs, facsmilies ; 24 cm |
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age Children lcdgt |
| Note |
Ages 10 up. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 150-163) and index. |
| Contents |
Not this 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 -- Continuing to climb. |
| Summary |
"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. That’s not the real story. 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....Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this. Women in black church groups, black female sororities, black women’s improvement societies and social clubs. Women who formed their own black suffrage associations when white-dominated national suffrage groups rejected them. Women like Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association of Colored Women and of the NAACP; or educator-activist Anna Julia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education; or the crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, a leader in both the suffrage and anti-lynching movements." --publisher's website |
| Audience |
Ages 10 up. |
| Subject |
United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment -- Juvenile literature.
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African American women -- Suffrage -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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| Genre |
Informational works.
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| Added Title |
Black women's battle for the ballot box |
| ISBN |
9780451481542 |
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0451481542 |
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