Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights

From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment

Deborah Kops (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2017
Calkins Creek (Verlag)
978-1-62979-323-8 (ISBN)

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Here is the story of extraordinary leader Alice Paul, from the woman suffrage movement-the long struggle for votes for women-to the "second wave," when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She 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. Passage of the ERA became the rallying cry of a new movement of young women in the 1960s and '70s. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. She set in motion the "sex amendment," which remains a crucial legal tool for helping women fight discrimination in the workplace. Includes archival images, author's note, bibliography, and source notes.

Deborah Kops has written more than twenty nonfiction books for children and young adults. Her most recent work, The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 (Charlesbridge), was a finalist for the 2013 Boston Authors Club's Young Reader's Prize, was on the National Council for the Social Studies' list of Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People for 2013, and was also named to the New York Public Library's 2012 list, 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Visit deborahkops.com.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	561 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
ISBN-10	1-62979-323-X / 162979323X
ISBN-13	978-1-62979-323-8 / 9781629793238
Zustand	Neuware