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Author Dionne, Evette, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Viking, [2020]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 323.34 DIONNE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 323.34 DIONNE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  LJW J323.3 DIONNE    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J324.623 DIO    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Children's Department  J324.623 DIO    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Middle School Books  M323.3 DIONNE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J 323.34 DIONNE    On Display
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Teen  TEEN 323.3 DIO    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  J 324.62 DIO    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Young Adult  YA 323.34 DIONNE    DUE 08-15-22 Billed

Description 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [150]-164) and index.
Summary "For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle."--Publisher's description.
Contents Preface: not the history you learned in school -- Abolitionist women embrace the fight -- "Ain't I a woman?" : the cult of true womanhood -- The negro hour is upon us -- The rise of Black women's suffrage clubs -- Voting is only for educated women -- Taking it to the streets -- The back of the movement : the Women's Suffrage March -- Voting out Jim Crow -- Epilogue: continuing to climb.
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.
United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Suffrage -- History.
African American women -- Civil rights -- History.
United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment.
Constitution (United States) (OCoLC)fst01356075
African American women -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799443
Women -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst01176996
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN 9780451481542 (hardcover)
0451481542 (hardcover)
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