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The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back By Hartmann, Thom 2020-02 - Berrett-Koehler Publishers 9781523087785 Check Our Catalog
"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."--Booklist
America's #1 progressive radio host looks …More
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Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting Rights in America By Jenkins, Tommy Illustrator Lacker, Kati Introduction by Jones, Martha 2020-04 - Abrams Comicarts 9781419739989 Check Our Catalog
How the history of American voting rights has shaped the way we vote today
Coinciding with the 2020 US presidential election, Drawing the Vote, an original graphic novel, looks at the history of voting rights in the United States and how it affects the way we vote today. Throughout the book, the author, Tommy Jenkins, identifies events and trends that led to the unprecedented …More
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Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America By Abrams, Stacey 2020-06 - Henry Holt & Company 9781250257703 Check Our Catalog
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter. --Kerry Washington
This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a different American story than the one being told today. It's a story …More
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Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth about Voting in America By Smith, Erin Geiger 2020-06 - Harper 9780062934826 Check Our Catalog
In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.
Voting is a prized American right and a …More
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The Woman's Hour: The Last Furious Fight to Win the Vote By Weiss, Elaine F. 2018-03 - Viking 9780525429722 Check Our Catalog
"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.
"With a skill reminiscent of Robert Caro, Weiss] turns the potentially dry stuff of …More
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A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump By Plouffe, David 2020-03 - Viking 9781984879493 Check Our Catalog
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
As seen on CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Pod Save America and more
A voter's playbook on making a difference in the 2020 election and beyond from the most recognized and most successful political strategist in the country
If you've asked yourself the …More
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The Fight to Vote By Waldman, Michael 2016-02 - Simon & Schuster 9781501116483 Check Our Catalog
"Important and engaging" --The Washington Post
From the president of NYU's Brennan Center for Justice and the author of The Second Amendment, the history of the long struggle to win voting rights for all citizens.
In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traced the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights to the current day. Now in The Fight to …More
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Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote By DuBois, Ellen Carol 2020-02 - Simon & Schuster 9781501165160 Check Our Catalog
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.
Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner …More
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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardner By Hamlin, Kimberley 2020-03 - W. W. Norton & Company 9781324004974 Check Our Catalog
When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth's affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing women's rights and decrying the sexual double standard. She published seven books and countless essays, hobnobbed with the most interesting thinkers of her era, and was celebrated for her audacious ideas …More
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College By Wegman, Jesse 2020-03 - St. Martin's Press 9781250221971 Check Our Catalog
"Wegman combines in-depth historical analysis and insight into contemporary politics to present a cogent argument that the Electoral College violates America's 'core democratic principles' and should be done away with... --Publishers Weekly
The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 …More
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Votes of Confidence, 2nd Edition: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections By Fleischer, Jeff 2020-03 - Zest Books (Tm) 9781541578968 Check Our Catalog
Every two years, media coverage of American elections turns into a horse-race story about who's leading the polls and who said what when. Give young adult readers clear explanations about how our election process actually works, why it matters, and how they can become involved. Using real-world examples and anecdotes, this book provides readers with thorough, nonpartisan explanations about …More
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Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights By Goldstone, Lawrence 2020-01 - Scholastic Focus 9781338323481 Check Our Catalog
A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States.
Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote?
In a bitter partisan fight over …More
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy By Anderson, Carol Foreword by Durbin, Dick 2018-09 - Bloomsbury Publishing 9781635571370 Check Our Catalog
From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America.n America. …More
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Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America By Daniels, Gilda R. 2020-01 - New York University Press 9781479862351 Check Our Catalog
An answer to the assault on voting rights--crucial reading in advance of the 2020 presidential election
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent …More
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Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy By Cross, Tiffany 2020-07 - Amistad Press 9780062976772 Check Our Catalog
A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country's rising majority and exposing political forces aligned to subvert and suppress Black voters.
Black voters were critical to the …More
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice By Browne-Marshall, Gloria Foreword by Vivian, Rev Dr 2016-08 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781442266896 Check Our Catalog
The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896 through today's conflicts around voter suppression. The NAACP brought important cases to the Supreme …More
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Sisters By Baker, Jean 2005-09 - Hill & Wang 9780809095285 Check Our Catalog
Baker interweaves the private lives of Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, and Alice Paul with their public achievements, presenting these revolutionary women in three dimensions--humanized, and marvelously approachable. …More
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What You Need to Know about Voting--And Why By Wehle, Kim 2020-06 - Harper Paperbacks 9780062974785 Check Our Catalog
Want to change the world? The first step is to exercise your right to vote In this step by step guide, you can learn everything you need to know.
In What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why, law professor and constitutional scholar Kimberly Wehle offers practical, useful advice on the mechanics of voting and an enlightening survey of its history and future. …More
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One Person, No Vote: How All Voters Are Not Treated Equally By Anderson, Carol Author Bolden, Tonya 2019-09 - Bloomsbury YA 9781547601073 Check Our Catalog
From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of White Rage comes the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a Foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.ck Durbin. …More
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Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote By Zimet, Susan Author Hasak-Lowy, Todd 2018-01 - Viking Books for Young Readers 9780451477545 Check Our Catalog
The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.
And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin.
The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been …More
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America By Berman, Ari 2015-08 - Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl 9780374158279 Check Our Catalog
Awards: ALA Notable Books (2016), National Book Critics Circle Award (2015)
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2015
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015
An NPR Best Book of 2015
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The Split History of the Women's Suffrage Movement: Suffragists Perspective By Nardo, Don 2014-01 - Compass Point Books 9780756547356 Check Our Catalog
In the mid 19th century, a few women living in upstate New York decided it was time for women to stop accepting their status as second class citizens. Women lacked many basic civil rights that men enjoyed, including suffrage the right to vote. These women from New York held a convention in which they demanded their rights. Their battle took more than 70 years to win. Along the way they were …More
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March By Lowery, Lynda Blackmon With Leacock, Elspeth With Buckley, Susan 2015-01 - Dial Books 9780803741232 Check Our Catalog
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (2016)
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes
A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book
Kirkus Best Books of 2015
Booklist Editors' Choice 2015
BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery …More
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Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 By Winter, Jonah Illustrator Evans, Shane W. 2015-07 - Schwartz & Wade Books 9780385390293 Check Our Catalog
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family's tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a "long haul up a steep hill" to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky--she sees her family's history. She sees …More
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Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles By Rockliff, Mara Illustrator Hooper, Hadley 2016-08 - Candlewick Press (MA) 9780763678937 Check Our Catalog
The author of Mesmerized delivers another fascinating glimpse into history, this time the story of two brave suffragists on a trek across America to spread the word: Votes for Women
In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny …More
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Bold and Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote By Gillibrand, Kirsten Illustrator Kalman, Maira 2018-11 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 9780525579014 Check Our Catalog
From United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand comes an inspiring picture book about ten suffragists who fought for women's right to vote.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was inspired by her own great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother to be bold and brave--to stand up and fight for what she believes in. But who inspired them? The long chain of women before them who spoke out for what's …More
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World By Colman, Penny 2011-05 - Christy Ottaviano Books-Henry Holt and Compan 9780805082937 Check Our Catalog
Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Colman tells this compelling story and vividly portrays the friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. 16-page photo insert. …More
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