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The Nineteenth Amendment expanded American democracy by doubling the number of eligible voters, but it was an incomplete victory. It did not enfranchise all women nor even protect women who could vote. A century later, many of the issues in the Nineteenth Amendment still dominate public discourse: voting rights, racial violence, health care, working conditions, reproductive rights, and more. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. White women wanted equal legal rights, political power, safeguards for working women and immigrants, and an end to confining social structures. Black women wanted to protect their communities from racial violence and discrimination. White women wanted to be equal to white men. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. Theirs was not only a women's movement. Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight of both white and Black women to achieve equality in this sweeping and riveting narrative. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately, as white or Black topics, or else viewed through individuals, decades, or incidents, rather than from a longer view and a wider perspective. We also meet a cast of women thoughtout this generations-long fight. From feminists, civil rights activists, politicians, social justice advocates, working class women, mothers and homemakers, radicals and conservatives, to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy. After winning in 1920, suffragists had a sense of optimism, declaring, "Now we can begin!" By 2020, a new generation knew they would have to begin again. By turns engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue the fights of their foremothers to truly achieve equality for all. |
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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African American women -- History -- 20th century.
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African American women -- History -- 21st century.
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Equality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Equality -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Electronic books.
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hoopla digital.
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American women and the fight for equality, 1920-2020 |
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9781639361908 (electronic bk.) |
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1639361901 (electronic bk.) |
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MWT14934097 |
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