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1) Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights: from the vote to the equal rights amendment

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Alice Paul reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. Kops introduces readers to this relatively unknown leader of the...

2) Around America to win the vote: two suffragists, a kitten, and 10,000 miles

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"In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The womens suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would not let anything keep them from spreading the word about...

3) Fight of the century: Alice Paul battles Woodrow Wilson for the vote

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Rosenstock, Barb

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"This fight determines whether the women of the United States can vote, folks. The winner changes the country forever."--Back cover. "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! THEIR FIGHT BEGAN. For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered...

4) Finish the fight!: the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote

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Chambers, Veronica

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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."--

5) How women won the vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and their big idea

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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

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"A history of the iconic first women's march in 1913 and the suffragists who led the way to passing the 19th amendment."--

6) I could do that: Ester Morris gets women the vote

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In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became the first woman to hold public office in the United States.

7) A lady has the floor: Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights

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Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men? She had big dreams and didn't let anyone stand in her way--not her father, her law school, or even the U.S. Supreme Court. She fought for equality for women in the classroom, in the courtroom, and in politics.

8) Lifting as we climb: Black women's battle for the ballot box

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"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.

9) Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the fight for women's suffrage

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Murphy, Claire Rudolf

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Not allowed to go hiking with her father and brothers because she is a girl, Bessie learns about women's rights when she attends a suffrage rally led by Susan B. Anthony.

10) Miss Paul and the president: the creative campaign for women's right to vote

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"The story of suffragette Alice Paul and her campaign to win women the right to vote"--

11) Roses and radicals: the epic story of how American women won the right to vote

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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 amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The...

12) Suffragette: the battle for equality

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Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu - the decades-long fight for women's right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and thoroughly engaging resource in his first turn as nonfiction...

13) Susan B. Anthony

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Kanefield, Teri

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Making of America (Abrams) volume 4

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In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...

14) Vote!: women's fight for access to the ballot box

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Frazer, Coral Celeste

15) Votes for women!: American suffragists and the battle for the ballot

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Conkling, Winifred

16) With courage and cloth: winning the fight for a woman's right to vote

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Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, and includes profiles of notable women in the struggle.

17) The woman's hour: our fight for the right to vote

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Weiss, Elaine F

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"The story of how America's women won the right to vote, adapted for young adult readers"--Provided by publisher.

18) Women and the right to vote

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Chin-Lee, Cynthia

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"Introduces the reader to women's right to vote"--

19) Women's right to vote

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History smashers

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"Myths about the history of women's rights in the US--focusing on the ratification of the 19th Amendment--are debunked; the real deal of what happened is explained."--

20) Women's suffrage

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Uncovering the past (Crabtree Publishing Company)