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Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on the consent of the governed. From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought to stop them. This is the first book to trace the full story from the founders' debates to today's challenges: a wave of restrictive voting laws, partisan gerrymanders, the...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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English
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Most of us are well aware that there is something fundamentally broken about the way we vote, but not why. In One Person, No Vote, the author chronicles a timely, comprehensive, and powerful indictment of the history of brutal race-based vote suppression, and its many modern iterations- from voter ID requirements and voter purges to election fraud, and stolen elections. She also traces the related history of the rollbacks to African American participation...
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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"A powerful look at the evolution of voting rights in the United States, from our nation's founding to the present day"--
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English
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On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over the right to vote The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power--over the right to vote, the central...
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[Council for Public Television, Channel 6, Inc.]
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (26 min., 40 sec.) : sound, color with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. tape.
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English
Description
Overview of the fight for suffrage from the physical freedom of bloomers to Colorado's granting of women's right to vote.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware uncovers a much broader and more diverse history waiting to be told. Why They Marched is the inspiring story of the dedicated women--and occasionally men--who carried the banner in communities across the nation,...
17) Women's suffrage
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Publisher
little bee books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Blast back to the past and learn all about the women's suffrage movement. 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...
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English
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"The first of at least a half-dozen fundraising books published in support of women's suffrage, this volume features contributions from prominent suffragists as well as women eminent in their fields: teachers, lecturers, physicians, ministers, and authors. Their combined effect offers context to the changing roles of women who were fighting for their rights outside the home while still tending to their domestic duties. Recipes cover soups, salads,...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 308 pages : illlustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
"How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? ... [the authors] offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women's (and men's) voting behavior, and traces how women's turnout...
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