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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
For the freedom of her race For the freedom of her race Lisa G. Materson "Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 - a perio… OL12048834W
The woman suffrage movement in Tennessee The woman suffrage movement in Tennessee A. Elizabeth Taylor 150 p. ; 23 cm OL1217457W
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucile Davis A brief biography of the staunch supporter of women's rights who helped plan the historic Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. OL14873126W
Mothers of men Mothers of men Daniel A. Poling This pro-suffrage essay defines the reform as natural and progressive and reflects the optimism of suffragists in the years just prior to its passage. OL15399450W
Forward into light Forward into light Madeleine Meyers This collection of journals, newsclips, historic photos, poems, songs, essays, and political cartoons highlights the woman's suffrage movement in the United States. OL18261975W
Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer Laura Baskes Litwin A biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice. OL1942322W
Colored no more Colored no more Treva B. Lindsey "This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey d… OL19722798W
African American felon disenfranchisement African American felon disenfranchisement John E. Pinkard "Utilizing a field study on felons that were within one year of completing incarceration, Pinkard analyzes the legal history, constitutionality, conflicting laws, political, and life chance consequen… OL19975778W
Selma's Bloody Sunday Selma's Bloody Sunday Pratt, Robert A. "One can point to more than a few 'critical moments' in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Even so, few incidents so starkly etched the just-treatment claims of the struggle and the raw brutalit… OL20048220W
Political elections Political elections Davis Miller "In cartoon format, explains the history of voting rights and the function of political elections in the United States"--Provided by publisher. OL2011782W
Suffragettes Suffragettes Joyce Marlow Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - … OL20874226W
Girls of Liberty Girls of Liberty Margalit Shilo Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. Th… OL20932424W
Selected articles on woman suffrage Selected articles on woman suffrage Edith M. Phelps In the first decades of the 20th century publisher H.W. Wilson produced many volumes in its Debaters’ Handbook Series on social and political issues that were under discussion at the time. Each book … OL37738W
You come to Yokum You come to Yokum Carol Otis Hurst Twelve-year-old Frank witnesses his mother's struggles to muster support for women's right to vote even as the family's life is transformed by a year running a lodge in western Massachusetts in the e… OL451691W
Farewell to the party of Lincoln Farewell to the party of Lincoln Nancy Joan Weiss Malkiel This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon -- the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Demo… OL4774076W
Acquaintances, old and new, among reformers Acquaintances, old and new, among reformers Olympia Brown An autobiographical account of Olympia Brown's work in the early women's rights movement. It is well-written and easy to read. Its treatment of the events surrounding the early suffrage campaign is a… OL4946293W
The ladies of Seneca Falls The ladies of Seneca Falls Miriam Gurko An account of the feminist movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries focusing on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. OL4985631W
Amelia Amelia Brand Whitlock Historical fiction full of love and adventure set in bygone days in the region known as Great Lakes country. Glimpses into the attitudes of turn-of-the-century women regarding the question of women's… OL553441W