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Roses and radicals, the epic story of how American women won the right to vote, by Susan Zimet & Todd Hasak-Lowy

Label
Roses and radicals, the epic story of how American women won the right to vote, by Susan Zimet & Todd Hasak-Lowy
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Index
index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 10 to 14
resource.interestGradeLevel
Grades 5 to 6
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Roses and radicals
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1002302603
Responsibility statement
by Susan Zimet & Todd Hasak-Lowy
Sub title
the epic story of how American women won the right to vote
Summary
Presents the seventy-year history of the suffrage movement in the United States, profiling its prominent leaders and describing the ridicule and imprisonment their supporters had to endure before women were granted the right to vote in 1920
Table Of Contents
Foreword [by Sally Roesch Wagner, PhD.] -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Enough of the everlasting no -- Chapter 2: A leader emerges and a resolution is made -- Chapter 3: The great partnership -- Chapter 4: Postwar turbulence -- Chapter 5: A vote, a trial, and the long, long road to suffrage -- Chapter 6: British tactics and new leadership on parade -- Chapter 7: The long showdown and a night of terror -- Chapter 8: War of the roses: the final battle for the right to vote -- Epilogue
Target audience
adolescent
Content
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