Lifting as we climb : Black women's battle for the ballot box / Evette Dionne.

"When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white. That's not the real story. Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Main Author:	Dionne, Evette (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2020.
Series:	MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:	Women > Suffrage > History > Juvenile literature. African American women > Civil rights > History > Juvenile literature. United States. > Constitution. > 19th Amendment > Juvenile literature. Women > Suffrage > History. African American women > Civil rights > History. United States. > Constitution. > 19th Amendment. JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women. JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 19th Century. Constitution (United States) African American women > Civil rights. Women > Suffrage. Women > Suffrage > Juvenile literature. African American women > Juvenile literature. African American women. Instructional and educational works. Creative nonfiction. History. Juvenile works. Young adult nonfiction.
Genre:	Juvenile literature. Instructional and educational works. Creative nonfiction. History. Juvenile works. Young adult nonfiction.
Physical Description:	170 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Preface: not the history you learned in school
Abolitionist women embrace the fight
"Ain't I a woman?" : the cult of true womanhood
The Negro hour is upon us
The rise of Black women's suffrage clubs
Voting is only for educated women
Taking it to the streets
The back of the movement : the Women's Suffrage March
Voting out Jim Crow
Epilogue: continuing to climb.