Bibliograph

Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights, from the vote to the equal rights amendment, Deborah Kops

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Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights, from the vote to the equal rights amendment, Deborah Kops

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

954670686

Responsibility statement

Deborah Kops

Sub title

from the vote to the equal rights amendment

Summary

Alice Paul reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. Kops introduces readers to this relatively unknown leader of the women's movement, and the changing times in which she lived

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Quaker roots -- Protest lessons in London -- Upstaging the President-elect -- Shaking up the Woman Suffrage Movement -- A permanent delegation to the White House -- From picket lines to prison cells and back -- Hunger strike! -- "Like ... sand that gets into your eyes" -- Equal rights for women -- A new generation demands equal rights -- Epilogue -- Who is who

Target audience

adolescent

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Alice Paul & the fight for women's rights

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