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1) Champions for women's rights: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone
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Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Enriched by primary sources, images, and sidebars, this volume of collective biographies features the life stories of four leaders of the women's suffrage movement. Readers will learn how such a diverse group of women came together to fight for a common cause and come to understand the game-changing roles citizens play in shaping government policy.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They were two days that changed the world. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the first of its kind to address the topic of women's rights. Featuring excerpts from primary sources, images, and sidebars, this informative volume describes the low status held by nineteenth-century women, and how a handful of key players sought to achieve equal rights during this convention that spawned a greater movement.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The women's suffrage movement received support from several key abolitionists. One example was the freed slave and antislavery advocate who called herself Sojourner Truth. Through primary sources, images, and engaging narrative, students will learn that in addition to Truth's impassioned battle to end slavery, she also fought for women's rights, speaking to the crowds at suffrage gatherings during the 1850s and until her death.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Born in England and raised by a progressive father, an abolitionist who also believed women were equal to men, Elizabeth Blackwell is famous for becoming America's first woman doctor. But her story is far more complex. Students will be interested to learn that Blackwell was denied the ability to practice medicine, simply because she was a woman. Her insistence on breaking barriers, as well as opening doors for other women, will teach students the...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Pub
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Every time women vote, they should thank Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton's unyielding efforts to attain the vote for American women finally paid off in 1920, after her death, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Enhanced by primary sources, images, and sidebars, this inspiring biography proves that with enough passion and commitment, change can occur.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Enhanced by primary sources, images, and sidebars, this engaging biography of one of the suffrage movement's most inspiring leaders paints a vivid picture of what life was like for a woman in nineteenth-century America. Readers will be inspired by Anthony's tireless fight to improve women's standing, an effort that changed the course of history.