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Lifting as we climb : Black women's battle for the ballot box / Evette Dionne.

Dionne, Evette, (author.).

Summary:

"Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this. Women in black church groups, black female sororities, black women's improvement societies and social clubs. Women who formed their own black suffrage associations when white-dominated national suffrage groups rejected them. Women like Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association of Colored Women and of the NAACP; or educator-activist Anna Julia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education; or the crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, a leader in both the suffrage and anti-lynching movements"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451481542
  • ISBN: 0451481542
  • ISBN: 9780451481559
  • ISBN: 0451481550
  • Physical Description: 170 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: 2020.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target Audience Note:
Grades 4-6 Viking.
Ages 10 and up Viking.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 9.4 7 510668.
Subject:
United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment > Juvenile literature.
Women > Suffrage > History > Juvenile literature.
African American women > Civil rights > History > Juvenile literature.
Women.
Womyn.

Available copies

  • 43 of 43 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Marion Library JUV 323.34 DIO (Text) 37810435765119 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -