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HBO Video
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English
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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
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,...
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Algonquin Young Readers
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English
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Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions
"For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the...
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Fast facts volume 2014-2015
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Colorado Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services Unit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Describes the successful federal lawsuit against a Southern registrar in Forest County, Mississippi for voter discrimination against African Americans, a case which was influential in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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1995.
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English
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Documents the 72-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. Historical footage is enhanced with vocal performances, and interviews with historians provide the viewer with both current and historical perspectives.
10) Maisie Dobbs
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"She started as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, a suffragette, took the remarkably bright youngster under her wing and became her patron, aided by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as an investigator by the elite of Europe. It was he who first recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her to earn admission to prestigious Girton College at Cambridge where Maisie planned...
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Filmakers Library/an imprint of Alexander Street Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Ruleville, MS, in 1961, summers were scorching, cotton was still king, and African-Americans were shackled to white intimidation, poverty, and cruel injustice. Fannie Lou Hamer, a middle-aged sharecropper living on a sprawling plantation, had known no other way of life. That all changed when an invitation to a voter registration meeting came her way in 1962. This Little Light of Mine follows the life of this extraordinary woman, who dedicated...
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Shares the story of the youngest person to complete the Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in Civil Rights events.