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Act out the story of two women, Alice and Lucy, from the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The group is trying to get women the right to vote, but they are moving too slowly! Alice and Lucy resort to their own methods including instigating radical demonstrations. While their efforts cause them trouble, children will learn how women did eventually obtain the right to vote. This script includes roles written at various reading...
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Women in many parts of the United States were not allowed to vote until 1920. Women's Suffrage discusses the history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the country, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary,...
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"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the women's suffrage movement. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important period in American history. An infographic enhances understanding of the women's suffrage movement, and What Do You Think? sidebars encourage deeper inquiry. A timeline highlights key events and dates....
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Learn about women's fight for equality in this enthralling book that features highlights on some of the most well-known feminists and suffragists of all time, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. Through plenty of vivid images, engaging facts, sidebars, and easy-to-read text, readers discover the history behind such things as the Women's Rights Convention, the National Women's Suffrage Association, and how suffragists...
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From the Seneca Falls Convention, to the day that the Nineteenth Amendment was passed into law, the journey to women's right to vote is endlessly fascinating. Leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul are featured in this look into the women's suffrage movement. The main text succinctly introduces important events and groups as well as provides historical context outside of the suffrage movement itself. A concluding timeline including dates...
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While women were part of American history from the outset, they did not win the right to vote until 1920. Readers of this engrossing history of the women's suffrage movement will discover its roots in the abolitionist movement. They'll read about the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which stated, "all men and women are created equal." The book also discusses how the fight for women's rights...
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From the formal beginning of the women's suffrage movement in the United States to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the journey to women's right to vote is endlessly fascinating. Leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul are part of this volume, which covers important curriculum points, including the Seneca Falls Convention and its Declaration of Sentiments. The main text succinctly introduces important events and groups as well...
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In July of 1848, the fight for women's right to vote in the United States began with a bang. In this innovative play, readers will be transported to the birth of this crucial movement, the Seneca Falls convention. The play features a cast of important historical figures, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, Martha Wright, Mary Ann M'Clintock, and Frederick Douglass. Historical photographs illustrate the true story of these early...
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Since the beginning of the US, women have fought for gender equality. Many women additionally fought for racial equality. Through current and historical photographs, learn about the women who fought for equality, such as Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, and Adelina Otero-Warren, and learn about major events of the movement, including the Night of Terror and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Then discover the movement's connection to modern issues...
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White American women won the right to vote in the 1920s, but the suffragette movement started decades earlier. Women fought for nearly 100 years to be allowed to participate in politics at the most basic level. Even after the 19th Amendment was ratified, women of color needed to carry on the fight for their own voting rights-a fact that is often overlooked by history books. Through informative sidebars and engaging fact boxes, this volume takes an...
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An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid-1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928. In the decade prior to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, both militant suffragettes and law-abiding suffragists ensured that the issue came to the forefront of British politics. This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the movement in Wales, which...
15) Women's suffrage
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1995.
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Chronicles the history of the fight for women's voting rigghts, from abolitionism to the feminist movement of the late 20th century.
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[2015]
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Women used to have few rights. All the important decisions in their lives were made by men. They could not vote and give their opinion on who should run the country. By the middle of the 19th century, more and more women were starting to ask why not? These are the stories of five trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Elizabeth Cady Stanton began campaigning for women's rights when she was refused entry to a convention...
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2019.
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"Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries with commentary on each period by the editor, this book covers the major issues and figures involved in the women's suffrage movement with a special focus on diversity, incorporating race, class, and gender. The writings of such figures as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are featured alongside accounts of Native American women and African American suffragists such as Sarah Mapps Douglas...
19) Women's suffrage
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[2006]
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"Examines the history of the women's suffrage movement and its impact on American life and society. Features include narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and annotated sources for further study"--Provided by publisher.
20) Women's suffrage
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24 cm.
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Profiles early leaders in the fight for women's rights, especially the right to vote, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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