Vote!

Women's Fight for Access to the Ballot Box

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 8

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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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 12
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
BISACS YAN052040, YAN051270
Dewey 324.6/230973
Graphics 1-color illustrations, Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 6 x 9
Lexile 1080
Features Awards and Reviewed

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, Winner, 2020

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