Vote!
Women's Fight for Access to the Ballot Box
August 18, 2020, marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. See how the 70-year-long fight for women’s suffrage was hard won by leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt and others. Learn how their success led into the civil rights and feminist movements of the mid- and late twentieth century, as well as today’s #MeToo, #YesAllWomen, and Black Lives Matter movements. In the face of voter ID laws, voter purges, gerrymandering, and other restrictions, Americans continue to fight for equality in voting rights.
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978-1-5415-2815-4
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| Interest Level | Grade 6 - Grade 12 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 8 |
| Genre | Social Studies, Young Adult |
| Category | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction |
| Copyright | 2020 |
| Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
| Imprint | Twenty-First Century Books ™ |
| Language | English |
| Number of Pages | 120 |
| Publication Date | 2019-08-06 |
| Text Type | Informational/Explanatory |
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| BISACS | YAN052040, YAN051270 |
| Dewey | 324.6/230973 |
| Graphics | 1-color illustrations, Full-color illustrations |
| Dimensions | 6 x 9 |
| Lexile | 1080 |
| Features | Awards, Bibliography/further reading, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Glossary, Primary source quotations/images, Reviewed, Sidebars, Source notes, and Timeline |
Author: Coral Celeste Frazer
Coral Celeste Frazer has an M.A. in sociology from Princeton University and a long-standing interest in issues of inequality, collective action, and social justice. She writes nonfiction and fiction for teens and adults, as well as reading comprehension items for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). She has lived in Colorado, Oregon, New Jersey, and Boston, and now resides in Norwich, England, with her husband and son.
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Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
Reviews
Booklist
“For those interested in the subject and for report writers, so much information, and the book’s coverage of the present day, will be a bonus.”—Booklist
School Library Journal
“[A] masterly summary of suffragism. . . . This thorough history deserves a place in libraries in time for the anniversary.”—School Library Journal
Kirkus Reviews
“Offers teens a call to action to protect all voters from disenfranchisement.”—Kirkus Reviews