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Did you know that at one time in the US, women did not enjoy the same liberties as many do now? Women had to fight for their rights in so many ways. This book will discuss the reforms women initiated. It will also introduce you to some key personalities of several women-focused movements. The last chapter will discuss the amendment to the Constitution, which resulted from the many years of fighting for change.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Women have come a long way since the first women's rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848-but women's rights activists are still working to expand rights today. What are the main concerns of women's rights activists today? And what challenges have women faced in the 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s in their fight for equality? Find out how Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, and other groundbreaking activists paved the way for the women's...
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English
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The women s rights movement is sometimes abbreviated in history books, but it s crucial that today s generation understands the many key moments that led not only to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, but also the other hard-fought victories. And the movement didn t stop in the 20th century, both women and men are still fighting for women s equality in the workplace. This well-researched book features quotes by significant players in the women...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Rusted slavery chains, political cartoons, and a tube of red lipstick... how are these three objects related? Along with other artifacts, these items help tell the story of women's suffrage in the United States"--Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a young girl she knew she could do anything her brothers could do. But the laws in the country said women were not equal to men. Elizabeth knew she had to make a difference for all women.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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A brief history of American women's fight for voting rights. On a summer day in 1848, a gathering of women in Seneca Falls, New York, gave birth to a new revolution in American history--the fight for women's rights. In the 1880s and earlier, most people believed that a woman's place was in the home. Despite the overriding opinion, some women saw that their lives were limited by this view. These women decided to bravely fight the norm. Created Equal...
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Young readers edition /
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"To make change, you have to make trouble. Cecile Richards has been fighting for what she believes in ever since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her father, a civil rights attorney, and her mother, an avid activist and the first female governor of Texas, taught their kids to be troublemakers. From the...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020].
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English
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"It's not fair." Susan B. Anthony was very concerned about fairness and equality for women and girls in America. She knew it wasn't fair to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. She knew it wasn't fair not to allow women to vote in elections. In fact, it was illegal for women to vote. But she felt so strongly, she voted in an election--and was arrested--anyway. Young readers will learn about young Susan B. Anthony and how she grew up to become...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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English
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Chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York--discussing their vital roles in the Underground Railroad, abolition, and the early women's rights movement.
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Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"This narrative nonfiction title introduces young readers to the 2017 Women's March. This large protest, filled with powerful and courageous voices, shined a light on important issues relating to women. Each book includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and timeline"--
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fremont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Fremont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to become...
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