Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment

Kops, Deborah

ISBN 10: 162979323X / ISBN 13: 9781629793238

Editore: Calkins Creek, 2017

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Codice articolo 00088021395

Riassunto:

Here is the story of the extraordinary Alice Paul, a leader in the long struggle for votes for women.

Alice Paul made a significant impact on both the woman's suffrage movement—the long struggle for votes for women—to the "second wave," when women demanded full equality with men.  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. A true "girl power" book for today's young women, the title includes archival images, an author's note, a bibliography, and source notes.

Informazioni sull?autore: 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.

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Titolo: Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights:...
Casa editrice: Calkins Creek
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good