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Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1998, 1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Samantha's tenth birthday party is spoiled by the boy next door, Aunt Cornelia and her young twin sisters try to ease Samantha's disappointment by inviting her and Grandmary to visit them in New York City.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes and an injury force Ben to stop working, Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family. What she sees as a working woman appalls her, and she devotes her life to fighting for the rights...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
Author
Series
Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder volume 7
Publisher
T. Nelson
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls Wilder faces her husband's displeasure and the town's prejudices when she advocates voting rights for women.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
13) The vote
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
One hundred years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in US history.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
London, 1912. The suffragette movement is reaching a fever pitch, and Inspector Frederick Primrose is hunting a murderer on his beat. Across town, Fleet Street reporter Frances (3z(BFrankie(3y (BGeorge is chasing an interview with trapeze artist Ebony Diamond. Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly-laced acrobat and follows her to a Bond Street corset shop that seems to be hiding secrets of its own. When Ebony Diamond mysteriously disappears...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states -- even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
17) The Hope Chest
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film traces the remarkable journey of New Communities, Inc. and the struggle for racial justice and economic empowerment among African Americans in southwest Georgia. NCI was created in 1969 in Albany, Georgia by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Congressman John Lewis, and Charles and Shirley Sherrod, to help secure economic independence for African American families. For 15 years, NCI cooperatively farmed nearly 6,000 acres, the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights. In the early 1960s, tensions in the segregated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King,...
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