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"There had been other parades and marches, but with nine bands, four mounted brigades, twenty-six floats, and 5,000 women--this was the grandest of them all. The parade was the 'big' idea of American suffragists--Alice Paul and Lucy Burns--who had learned how to organize while fighting for votes for women in Great Britain. The women would march from the Capitol to the Treasury Building, sending a clear message to the president of the United States:...
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"Have women always been allowed to vote in the United States? No. The right to vote was extended to women who were citizens throughout the U.S. in 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It happened almost 150 years after the founding of our country!"--back cover.
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"Brad feels left out when Xavier and Yadina take a vote without him. Thanks to Susan B. Anthony, they learn that everyone should have a vote! This episode-based 8×8 will focus on the traits that made our heroes great–the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves."--publisher's website.
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"In 1776, the founders of the United States of America declared that consent of the governed would be a key component of our country....But at that time, only some people were allowed to vote. Citizenship (the legal status of being a member of a country) and the right to vote (sometimes called the franchise, political franchise, or suffrage) were not available at all. As our nation grew, our understanding of democracy and rights grew too. Many...
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"On a spring day in 1851, a meeting between two women would later shape U.S. history. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in Seneca Falls, New York, and soon kindled a friendship. This engaging volume reveals how Stanton and Anthony's teamwork played a principal role in advancing the women's rights movement in the United States. Primary sources, intriguing fact boxes, and eye-catching historical images cast light on these two important...
11) Women's suffrage
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"When people think about the women's suffrage movement, things like voting rights and protests may come to mind. But what was the movement all about, and what social change did it bring? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black-and-white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from the history of women's rights in the U.S. to women's suffrage movements across the world, and...
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"As a child, Carrie Chapman Catt asked a lot of questions: How many stars are in the sky? Do germs have personalities? And why can’t Mama vote? Catt’s curiosity led her to college, to a career in journalism, and finally to becoming the president of The National American Woman Suffrage Association. Catt knew the movement needed a change—and she set to work mobilizing women (and men) across the nation to dare to question a woman’s right to vote....
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"Myths! Lies! Secrets! Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth....In 1920, Susan B. Anthony passed a law that gave voting rights to women in the United States. RIGHT? WRONG! Susan B. Anthony wasn’t even alive when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Plus, it takes a lot more than one person to amend the constitution. The truth is, it took millions of women to get that amendment into law. They marched!...
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When President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC, to start his first term, women's rights leader Alice Paul was ready to demand an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. The president thought that idea was ridiculous! . . . For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered Wilson and his supporters with arguments and protests. Their peaceful pickets were met with ridicule and violence [and jail, but] Alice and her...
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"The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth ammendment to the U.S. Constituion-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The ammendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The...
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It follows the trajectory of the movement in the U.K. and visits some key figures and moments in the United States as it presents the stories of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, and many more heroic women and men — making it a perfect gift for young readers of today. Dr. Crystal Feimster of Yale’s Department of African American Studies contributes a foreword that speaks to the relationship and differences...
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"Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds—black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and more—who helped lead the fight for suffrage? On the hundredth anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the women whose stories have yet to be told." --publisher's...
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